Food bank manager hits out at two-child benefit cap

A food bank manager has criticised the UK's two-child benefit cap, saying many families in Worcester are struggling with food poverty.

Graham Lucas, manager of Worcester Foodbank, spoke out as 11 charities including the national Trussell Trust food bank charity wrote to Chancellor Rachel Reeves urging her to make a commitment in next week's spending review to abolish the limit.

He said in Worcester "an awful lot of families just haven't got sufficient money" to pay for household essentials.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), which said it was "determined to bring down child poverty", is expected to announce its decision on the cap in the autumn.

The letter sent by the charities to the chancellor claimed the two-child limit had pulled 37,000 children into poverty since the government took office.