Yorkshire school children collect for foodbank

The head teacher of a Sheffield school was so shocked when a pupil came to her saying she'd not eaten for a whole weekend that her school has set up what's believed to be the first food bank referral system of its kind in the UK.

Every half term from now on, Handsworth Grange Community Sports College will collect produce, and then transport it to one of the city's 16 food banks where it will be distributed to needy families. David Hirst reports.

Pupils pass food along the chain at Handsworth Grange Community Sports College. It'll be taken to a nearby food bank to be distributed to needy families in the area.

The schoolchildren - aged 11 to 16 - will collect food every half term and it'll be given out by the TrussellTrust.

Pupils at Handsworth Grange Community Sports College in Sheffield are preparing to distribute produce to a food bank half a mile away in the village.

Every half term the college plans to collect food and give it to the food bank. Headteacher Anne Quaile set up the scheme after a 15-year-old pupil came to her and said she hadn't eaten for a whole weekend.

She said it's shocking that people have to use food banks in one of the richest countries in the world.