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CHARITY workers are reporting seeing children who are “anorexically thin” at foodbanks as they warn of “unprecedented” demand from families during school holidays.
The Salvation Army said today that it has seen a growing number of children referred by teachers, health visitors and GPs.
The church and charity, based in more than 600 locations in Britain, is expecting to provide thousands of cooked meals and food parcels to children during the summer.
Dean Pallant from the Salvation Army said that the charity was braced to feed more children than ever over the next few weeks after already seeing a surge in demand driven by the cost-of-living crisis.
“When I hear Salvation Army officers report that ‘people are on the bones of their knees’ and they have seen children who are ‘anorexically thin’ it sounds like something from 1865, when the Salvation Army was founded, not 2022,” he said.
The charity is urging the government to protect people from sinking further into poverty by raising benefits in line with inflation.
