According to the Food Foundation, one in five households with children reported they were unable to access enough food during the first lockdown. In the first year of the pandemic, from April 1, 2020, the Trussell Trust, one of the UK’s largest networks of food banks, distributed 2.5 million emergency three-day food parcels, an increase of 33 percent on the previous year. Nearly a million of these parcels were for children.
In the six months from April 2021, Trussell Trust foodbanks distributed 936,000 parcels, but as the new year sees many more workers thrust into poverty and desperation, this is expected to sharply increase. Inflation has risen to 7.5 percent, the highest monthly increase in prices in almost 30 years, pushing up the average bills faced by households.
— source wsws.org | 24 Jan 2022