Mapped: Where families are going hungry in the UK as millions face food poverty
More than 14 million people encounter hunger in the UK, a big new report of 3.8 million children under the risk of food exhaustion.
Research by Trussell shows that there is an increase in food insecurity in which the number of people who faced hunger increases from 11.6 million to 14.1 when a similar survey has been conducted since 2022.
The results obtained in the mid -2014 show that more than a quarter (27 percent) of all children are currently facing hunger than 23 percent. Trussell said that the situation has worsened per year since the general election, because the Labor Party called on to do more to deal with financial insecurity.
Researchers show “definite geographical inequality ,, researchers see that the hunger of the households in the most unique regions is three times the possibility of hunger (27 percent against 27 percent).
At the regional and national level, there were also basic differences between fields. The area, which had the highest household rate in food insecurity, was the north -west in one quarter (26 percent) of all people.
This was followed by the North East (23 percent) and Northern Ireland (21 percent).
The report also found the following:
- In 10 (31 percent) of children aged five and six, three live in hunger households
- Approximately three of the 10 households using food banks (30 percent) show that “paid employment is no longer protecting people from difficulties”
- More than a quarter of the private tenants (28 percent) were subjected to food insecurity in 2024 and rose to 44 percent of people living in social rented houses. The ratio for landlords decreases to 8 percent
Trussell Policy, Research and Impact Director Helen Barnard said: “Hunger and difficulties are increasingly seen as a normal part of daily life in the UK. This is not an inevitable tendency, but the result of systems that need to be updated urgently.”
In order to cope with the growing problem, Trussell called the government to reduce the boundary of the conservative period, which prevented parents from demanding universal credit or tax loans for three or more children.
Their research shows that two of the five (42 percent) of five families with three or more children experience food insecurity and that families with two children (20 percent) are more than twice.
The charity also calls for action to take action to end the freezing in low -income work, insufficient benefit scope and local housing allowance, which limits the payment rate of housing benefits despite increasing rents.
Kim Johnson, the left-wing worker deputy, said: “This research should embarrass the government. Families, children, retirees and disabled people who work behind the title figure do not have to rely on food banks for survival.
“As the rich continue to develop, it has been pushed to millions of challenges, a broken wages and a broken welfare system.
