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People receive food from the Ringcross Foodbank, in north London, in March 2021
TWO-THIRDS of social workers are concerned about families being unable to provide food for their children, new research has found.
Figures from Food Is Care uncover food poverty and insecurity on a scale that the campaign group said it had never seen before.
More than 70 per cent of social workers interviewed by the group said that families they work with are compromising on the quality of their food to save money, while 55 per cent said that families are skipping meals.
Unless ministers match reform with investment, the profession and the people it serves will continue to bear the cost, says KATE RAMSDEN
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families