Four hundred thousand children in the UK were supported by baby banks in 2025, an 11% increase from the year before, prompting warnings from charities that they “cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty on this scale” without government support.
New research from the Baby Bank Alliance, set up by Save the Children UK and other organisations to represent and advocate for more than 400 baby banks across the country, found that an average of 1,096 children were being supported by baby banks every day, with some essential items soaring in demand.
