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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Cohen

‘It’s too expensive to eat lunch and feed my children’: The rise of the school food bank

Matt Writtle

The queue began 45 minutes before the opening of the weekly school food bank. It started outside the glass-fronted school entrance, snaked along the wall and, by the time produce-laden tables are assembled at 3.15pm, winds around the corner into the next street.

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