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• Food banks under pressure from a ‘tsunami of need’

  11-11-2022 13:38
  New figures from food bank charity The Trussell Trust show that 1.3million emergency food parcels were given out between April and September this year – more than ever before.
  Of those parcels, half a million went to children, as the cost of living crisis creates what the trust calls “a tsunami of need” across a struggling population.
  One in five of the trust’s food bank users are in work – but still can’t afford the essentials.
  The charity is calling on the p
  
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