The Trussell Trust, the UK's biggest network of food banks, says that despite signs of recovery, the poorest have seen incomes squeezed even more than last year, with a 163 per cent rise in the number of people using its food banks on the previous financial year (see info-graphic).
The number of people using food banks in the financial year 2013-14 is 913,138, up from 346,992 in 2012-13.
Trussell Trust food banks provide three days’ emergency food and support to people that have been referred by frontline care professionals such as doctors, social workers and children’s centres.
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