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New analysis by The Equality Trust reveals that the richest 1,000 people in the UK have Increased their wealth by £66 billion in the past year.

Action for Children says the decision to break the link between children’s benefits and living costs was a terrible mistake that ministers must fix urgently.

Trussell Trust says benefit levels must keep pace with rising cost of essentials, as record increase in foodbank figures is revealed.

Over 80 per cent of families with children at foodbanks were classed as severely food insecure, meaning they had skipped meals and gone without eating, sometimes for days at a time, in the past 12 months because of a lack of money.