The number of Brits struggling to provide their children with bare essentials – including nappies, cots and winter clothing – has soared during the pandemic, with many baby banks seeing demand double.
Leading baby bank Little Village, which is like a foodbank but for baby essentials, has revealed they recently helped their 6000th child this year - up from just 3000 in 2019.
CEO Sophia Parker, who warned child poverty in Britain is a “national crisis”, said: “The pandemic has made what was already a really bad situation much, much worse. “We just supported our 6000th child.
When you think in 2019 we supported 3000 – we have already doubled that number. And I think a lot of that is related to Covid. “One in four of the families that we’ve