More than 9 million peopleamong them one in five childrenthey find themselves in a situation of poverty extreme in United Kingdom, according to a report by the NGO Trussell Trust.
14% of the population living in the United Kingdom faced daily situations of lack of food and struggled to satisfy their basic needs at the end of March 2023, a million more people than five years earlier, according to the report.
The report from this charity, which runs a wide network of food banks across the country, notes that The phenomenon especially affects children, with three million children in this situation of extreme poverty.
The NGO considers in a situation of extreme poverty, for example, households whose available resources are around 152 pounds per week (about 200 dollars) for a single person and 204 pounds (about 267 dollars) for an adult with a child.
According to the Trussell Trust, the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis, which affected the country from 2022 due to the repercussions of the war in Ukraine, partly explain the worsening situation.
The study reveals that 20.9% of children in the United Kingdom are poor
The organization indicates that it distributed a record number of 3.1 million food packages between April 2023 and March 2024, double the number five years earlier.
According to the study, 20.9% of children in the United Kingdom are in poverty, as are a third of single-parent families and 28% of people from African and Caribbean minorities.
The NGO calls on the Labor government to take action to improve the social assistance system.
“If nothing changes, the number of people struggling to feed themselves and living in poverty will only increase,” he says. Helen Barnard director of policy, research and impact at the Trussell Trust, cited in the report.
The government, which will present its next budget at the end of the month, “must make reforming the system an urgent priority,” says Barnard.
Source: Ambito
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