The Russell Trust has said that a record number of food parcels were handed out locally in Christchurch. Over the last three months, the charity handed out 2,678 emergency three-day packages at food banks across the county – 30 per cent of them to children. , in other better news, child poverty statistics are showing a slight decline, with fewer than 12 percent of youngsters in the UK now growing up on the breadline.
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It is the most emergency parcels ever distributed in a 12-month time frame since The Trussell Trust launched 20 years ago.
Campaigners at the trust said an increasing number of people are turning to food banks because their benefits are no longer covering the cost of living, or there have been delays to payments.
Almost half (49 per cent) of food bank referrals made due to a delay in benefits being paid in UK were linked to Universal Credit, according to the charity.
The charity, which runs a large proportion of food banks in the UK, said the number of three-day supplies has “soared” by 73 per cent over the last five years.
In the year up to March 2019, some 1,583,668 food parcels were handed out to those in need across the trust’s 1,200 sites, which is almost 20 per cent more than the year before.
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