Effective responses to destitution: Cash or food? 

The APPG on ending the Need for Food Banks was established in 2020 to bring together parliamentarians to explore how to tackle the need for food banks, and the destitution - meaning people cannot afford essentials like food and heating - which causes this.  The Trussell Trust provides the secretariat to the APPG on Ending the Need for Food Banks.

In May this year, the group launched an inquiry into the following question: Effective responses to destitution: Cash or food?

Against a backdrop of record levels of need for food banks during the Covid-19 pandemic and a growing cost of living crisis, this is a critical time to assess effective ways to deliver support to people facing destitution and challenge the growing normalisation of emergency food as a response.  Furthermore, this inquiry will seek to examine the lessons that can be learned about the government's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Saffron Carter went to Parliament to attend a discussion as part of the group following her report, and we're incredibly proud to be representing and amplifying the experiences of people in and around Haverhill in order to feed into this important discussion, and presenting evidence to help those in poverty at a national level.

Read our evidence here.

You can find out more about the inquiry here.