Claim: Last year, half a million children went for three days' emergency food supplies.
Fact-check: Did 500,000 children need emergency food supplies last year? - Full Fact
Verdict: these figures refer to the number of three day emergency food supplies given out to children by the trussell trust, not the number of children receiving those supplies. 437,000 three day emergency food supplies were given to children between april 2016 and march 2017.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2017-11-17T00:00:00