Trussell Trust Launches the State of Hunger Report

HUNGER - The Trussell Trust have launched their largest ever state of hunger report.

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Executive summary:

Over the last decade there has been growing public and media concern about more extreme signs of material poverty. Public attention has been particularly captured by the rapid growth in the number of charitable food banks and the numbers of food parcels distributed. The Trussell Trust network, which covers around 60% of food banks, reported an increase in three-day food parcels provided from 61,000 in 2010/11 to 1,583,000 in 2018/19.

In response, there has been considerable policy and academic debate about root causes, including economic change, the increase in supply of food banks, and problems within the benefit system. Despite some new evidence (see, for example, Loopstra and Lalor 2017), this remains a controversial area.

There is a clear need for more definitive research on the nature and drivers of the problem and how these are changing over time. The State of Hunger is a three-year research project designed to provide the Trussell Trust, and the wider sector of stakeholders, with the evidence base required to make recommendations on how to address hunger in the UK.

A wide range of methodologies is therefore employed to provide a better understanding of how many people are affected by hunger, which groups of people are most affected, where, and what drives people to use food banks. The results presented in this report will serve as a benchmark for the subsequent two years of the project.

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