Families with 800,000 children were forced to seek help from UK food banks, The Guardian writes on March 23, citing data from the Ministry of Work and Pensions.
Statistics showed that in 2021-22, a fifth of the UK population (14.4 million people) were in a state of “relative” poverty. Of these people, 4.2 million were children (29%), 8.1 million adults of working age, and 2.1 million pensioners.
About 3% of the population has used food banks at least once in the last 12 months. Among the families that applied for a universal loan (a measure of social support), there were 16% of those families. This leads one to think that the existing social subsidy is not enough so that the people who receive it do not need it.
It should be noted that such statistics are collected for the first time, before the government did not collect statistics on the use of food banks. The government evaluated poverty indicators.
Among the working-age population, it was quite high: 54% of the poor lived in families with at least one adult working. More than two thirds of poor children (71%) lived in working families.
Child poverty rates were much higher among blacks (54%) and Asians (47%) than among whites (25%). 44% of poor children lived in single-parent families and 36% lived in families where there were people with disabilities.
Let us remember that in 2022, the UN recommended that the United Kingdom fight against the growing poverty among the population.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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