Food banks scramble to stop a million children going hungry over holidays

More families turn to food parcels to make up for loss of free school meals, extra childcare costs and benefit payment delays

Church and community food banks are preparing for their busiest summer yet, providing meals for children during the school holidays as an increasing number of families struggle with delays in benefit payments.

The Trussell Trust, which supports more than 1,200 food banks, many based in churches, said demand over the next few weeks could exceed last year’s record of 87,496 food parcels during the summer holidays. The 2018 figure was a 20% increase on the same period the previous year.

I regularly meet parents for whom the school holiday means they must skip meals to ensure their children have enough

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2y1utFg