More than two-thirds (69 per cent) of young people whose family have relied on a food bank over the last year said they were unlikely to apply or expect to apply to university, compared to less than half (48 per cent) of those who had not relied on such support.
Among those not planning to apply to university almost two in five (39 per cent) of those from families that have used a food bank cited the cost of attending higher education as a barrier. This is 20 percentage points higher than among those not intending to apply for university for cost reasons whose family had not used a food bank.
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