More than 37,000 emergency food parcels were given to households across Nottinghamshire struggling to feed themselves, foodbank figures for the last year have shown. Thousands of meals went to children - and officials from a leading foodbank charity have called on the Government to do more to help.
Executives of the Trussell Trust also said parents were skipping meals so their children can eat. And families are switching off appliances so they can afford internet access so kids can do their homework, officials said.
Emma Revie, chief executive of the Trussell Trust, said: “How can this be right in a society like ours? And yet food banks in our network tell us this is only set to get worse as their communities are pushed deeper into financial hardship. No one’s income should fall so dangerously low that they cannot afford to stay fed, warm and dry."
