Food banks across Britain are being inundated with
requests for emergency meals as families struggle to feed their children
through the school holidays.
The Trussell Trust, which runs the country’s largest network
of food banks, says this is the busiest summer it has ever experienced, with
some of its branches seeing double the number of requests for emergency parcels
since the start of the holidays. The
trust says the situation is worse than last summer because of rising food
prices – which despite falling slightly in the latest Government figures are
more than 4 per cent higher than last year – and the impact of the Coalition’s
welfare changes that were launched in April.
Read more on the Independent website.
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