Families at Foodbanks Roundtable Hosted by the APPG on Poverty

In 2016, anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust and Dr Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London & the University of Oxford, published Financial insecurity, food insecurity, and disability, the most wide-ranging research on UK hunger to date. The report identified that lone parents and their children constitute the largest number of people receiving help from foodbanks.

Dr Loopstra is now publishing a new briefing paper (as a 3-part series with the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute) that further analyses why families find themselves facing hunger and referred to foodbanks.