Patrick Butler
Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor
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Oxfam International apologised and re-edited cartoon alleged to include racial stereotyping and JK Rowling attack
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External commissioners appointed as council’s debts expected to exceed 100 times its annual net income
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Complexity of system and perception of government handouts as ‘shameful’ stopping people from accessing much-needed support
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Exclusive: first audit of spaces reveals people visited to due to loneliness as well as to keep warm
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Trussell Trust says it gave out nearly 3m food parcels in year and 750,000 people visited for first time
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Child safeguarding practice review panel says harm was result of day-to-day failures and oversight