{"id":75943,"date":"2025-06-02T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75943"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:55:19","slug":"surge-in-parents-turning-to-baby-banks-as-uks-child-poverty-crisis-laid-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/surge-in-parents-turning-to-baby-banks-as-uks-child-poverty-crisis-laid-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in parents turning to baby banks as UK\u2019s child poverty crisis laid bare"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1FSVe2.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Leeds Baby Bank was set up in 2017 and currently supports 250 families each month (Save the Children UK\/Baby Bank Alliance\/Anna Gordon)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Demand for help from baby banks from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/two-child-benefit-cap-british-children-poverty-b2757812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">parents struggling to feed their children<\/a>\u00a0has surged by more than one-third in a year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/child-poverty-low-income-record-figures-dwp-b2722489.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\"><em>The Independent<\/em>\u00a0can reveal, amid record<\/a>-high levels of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/child-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">child poverty<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/surge-in-parents-turning-to-baby-banks-as-uk-s-child-poverty-crisis-laid-bare\/ar-AA1FSXzZ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=9c4d038f1f484100846a729a154c4557&amp;ei=83\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Demand for help from baby banks from\u00a0parents struggling to feed their children\u00a0has surged by more than one-third in a year,\u00a0The Independent\u00a0can reveal,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Baby-bank.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75945,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75943\/revisions\/75945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}