The Trussell Trust said 320,000 people have needed to use a food bank for the first time in the past six months.
Food banks distributed a record number of emergency food parcels between April and September this year
The situation means a “generation is growing up believing that it’s normal to see a food bank in every community”, according to the organisation’s chief executive Emma Revie. More than half a million parcels were for children in the latest period, compared to 487,884 in the same six months last year, and 370,575 in that period in 2021.
The charity, which supports more than 1,300 food bank centres across the UK, had already predicted last month that centres could hand out a record more than one million emergency parcels this winter amid an ever-growing need. The organisation repeated calls which have also been made by other charities working to tackle poverty, homelessness and helping children, for a so-called “essentials guarantee” to be brought in – meaning Universal Credit should protect people from going without the basics.
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