Rapid Rise In Foodbank Use

Men, women and children across Scotland are still going hungry, according to The Trussell Trust.

Figures from the charity show that 117, 689 people received a three-day supply of emergency food last year - that's a 65%  increase on the previous year.

In Fife, more than 10, 137 families have sought help:

Cupar: 1, 073, including 391 children

Dunfermline: 3, 966, including 1, 317 children

Glenrothes: 3, 305, including 1, 058 children

Levenmouth: 1, 793, including 536 children

Delays to benefits, low income or a benefit change are being blamed for the trend.

In response to figures from the Trussell Trust, Jamie Livingstone, Head of Oxfam Scotland, said: “It's extremely worrying to see yet another rise in the number of people being forced to visit foodbanks in Scotland, and throughout the UK. 

 "These figures reveal that there has been a two-thirds increase in the number of people accessing  emergency food from a Trussell Trust foodbank in Scotland. However, we know there are many more out there who are using independent ones, not to mention the people who don't go to foodbanks and are literally going without enough food.   

“Whoever forms the next UK government can't ignore the fact that people in the seventh richest country in the world are going hungry every day. 

“As a cross-party group of parliamentarians at Westminster said recently, this has to be a top priority addressed urgently by whoever wins the election.”