Do wonder if the sw's ever live in the real world. Okay....I am happy that they thought to have a story line about being sympathetic to foodbank users.....BUT please get some facts straight first.
Tracy only left her job at the hotel about three months ago and received a financial redundancy package. Where has all that money gone? Since then she has been receiving a wage from the chicken factory, got the sack from that so, under the rules, made herself jobless and therefore not entitled to any benefits. Her live-in partner is in paid employment, both her teenage children have part-time jobs so they should not be totally on the breadline.
How come that she was able to be taken directly into the food bank and receive a bag of shopping - no referral. This can only strengthen than believe which is held by far too many, that anyone can just walk into these places to be given a 'handout'. No way can the volunteer workers in food banks make their own decisions as to to whom to give a bag of stuff, they have to receive that refferall chitty.
Surely, there are researchers for these scripts.