More than one million emergency food parcels for children were handed out to children in the past year.
Trussell Trust chief executive Emma Revie said: "It's the first time that we've distributed over one million parcels for children - an awful first to have.
"My bills are literally taking up all my money and I'm left with really nothing to buy food," she said."This is what's happening now each month - come the last week and I've just got nothing," Ms Hillard said.'Eradicating poverty' "It is ongoing low levels of income and a social-security system that isn't fit for purpose that are forcing more people to need food banks," she said.
"For too long people have been going without because social-security payments do not reflect life's essential costs - and people are being pushed deeper into hardship as a result."
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