The chair of the Leeds Food Aid Network has outlined concerns about the cost of living crisis and the extent of child poverty in Leeds.
He also hopes those fortunate enough to have not grown up in poverty or experience being plunged into it remain aware of families struggling to make ends meet."I love living here but it is fairly unequal, let’s be honest. You never know what someone is experiencing. I grew up in Yeadon, a nice market town and although not everyone there is wealthy, a lot of people have enjoyed prosperity.
Leeds Food Aid Network do not just help establish foodbanks and drop-ins, they also try and address the root causes of poverty to try reduce the demand for foodbanks in the first place."How can we help people with their debt? How can they access the appropriate welfare provision? How can they access fuel vouchers?
The figures from End Child Poverty also suggest children from black and minority ethnic groups are more likely to be in poverty at 46 per cent, compared with 26 per cent for children in white British families.
“But as we’ve said before, we don’t control the levers to lift children out of poverty – so while we’ll continue to do our best as a council to alleviate its impacts, we need urgent action from central government to do that.
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