Anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust has recorded an 81 per cent increase in the number of people relying on support from 303 food banks in the charity’s network during the last two weeks of March compared with the same period last year.
The charity has raised particular concerns over the number of children facing poverty after the number of food parcels handed out to under-18s surged by 112 per cent in the same time period compared with 12 months previously.
Mark Russell, chief executive of The Children’s Society, said the figures were a “stark indication of just how many more families are facing financial difficulties as a result of the coronavirus”.
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