Interesting from @LawrenceFelic in today's @Guardian. However, having worked with foodbanks for 15 years, seeing people who have gone without food for a day is not news. It has simply been a more potent reality since the advent of the Welfare Reform Act. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/11/uk-hunger-crisis-15m-people-go-whole-day-without-food

The Welfare Reform Act 2012 was implemented in April 2013. The hallmarks of which was the bedroom tax and a significant increase in benefit sanctions in 2013 as well as the rollout of Universal Credit from 2015, all of which has made foodbanks a long-term inevitability.