From 2018-19. Covid didn't cause a child poverty explosion in this country, the tories did with austerity. Covid has just made it worse. Tories decimated programs for children and the poor when they got in to power.

https://cpag.org.uk/child-poverty/ch...ts-and-figures

There were 4.2 million children living in poverty in the UK in 2018-19. That's 30 per cent of children, or nine in a classroom of 30.1
44 per cent of children living in lone-parent families are in poverty.2 Lone parents face a higher risk of poverty due to the lack of an additional earner, low rates of maintenance payments, gender inequality in employment and pay, and childcare costs.
Children from black and minority ethnic groups are more likely to be in poverty: 46 per cent are now in poverty, compared with 26 per cent of children in White British families.3
Work does not provide a guaranteed route out of poverty in the UK. 72 per cent of children growing up in poverty live in a household where at least one person works.4
Children in large families are at a far greater risk of living in poverty – 43 per cent of children living in families with 3 or more children live in poverty.5
Childcare and housing are two of the costs that take the biggest toll on families’ budgets.
Between 1998 and 2003 reducing child poverty was made a priority - with a comprehensive strategy and investment in children - and the number of children in poverty fell by 600,000.6
Removing the two-child limit and the benefit cap would lift 100,000s of children out of poverty.7
Increasing child benefit would substantially reduce child poverty as well as providing support to all families with the extra costs children bring.

....free school meals for all children...(...I’m not sure if that was just Primary level, though...)...was something that was discussed at the beginning of the year, Zizu...maybe around January/February...and then along came COVID, obviously...so no more speak of it...ironically, when it’s now needed most as well, eh...

Yeah, because more people relying on food banks to feed themselves is a new phenomenon and not a stat that's been increasing steadily for the past few years. People have only been struggling to survive on Universal Credit because of Covid, not because UC in itself is vicious by design, tory design.

Stop defending the people who have their foot on the necks of the poor and vulnerable. You are only a few bad days away from being one of them.

It isn't unicefs fault either... so why is ghoul mogg not praising the charity for its help and support at this time if global need?

well in my country they are raising money now too

one radio channel 538 is doing that for food banks, for the poor and vulnerable

and another 3FM has revived a corona-proof version of Serious Request tomorrow, one week before christmas, where 3 dj's lock themselves up in a glass house, now from a military airbase not to attract too many people around the building, but that most people can watch on tv or listen via radio and request what songs they want to hear in exchange for money, raising that to fight coronavirus, extra research, and to buy more medical equipment for frontline workers

It just shows how bad poverty is in the UK for this to be happening, it's weird to think this country is affected soo badly by it . But this is a very real issue .