Food bank usage almost trebles across UK

Food banks are now supplying many people across the UK on a daily basis. Credit: Rui Vieira/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Food banks are now supplying many people across the UK on a daily basis.

The Trussell Trust has said that over 300,000 people were given emergency handouts between 2011 and 2012, 120,000 of those children.

ITV News' social affairs editor Penny Marshall reports from a food bank in Derbyshire: