Anti-poverty charity warns summer 2018 is set to be their busiest on record

years and said most people referred there are struggling due to Universal Credit, benefit sanctions or losing their child tax credits.

She says: “Govanhill is one of the most deprived areas in Scotland and so many families are in desperate situations. They are struggling to feed their children and keep a roof over their head.

“No parent should have to rely on a food bank to stop their son or daughter going hungry, but that’s the sad situation many are finding themselves in.

“The little they get from a food bank often has to stretch for weeks, some of the cases we see are heartbreaking.

“People who come here are at crisis point – they have nowhere else to turn.”

Thousands of working families are among those in this position, driven to food banks due to insecure jobs, low pay, employers failing to pay workers on time and problems getting in-work benefits.

Diane Rice was forced to turn to a food bank when she was made redundant from her job as a hotel team leader.

Diane, 36, from Glasgow, said: “I’m struggling to get by on £108 a week. After I pay bills, there’s almost nothing left. My son Leo is my priority and I don’t ever want him to go without, but sometimes we have to rely a food bank just to get by.

“I want to work and I’ve applied for jobs but never hear anything back.”

Samantha Stapley of the Trussell Trust said: “This summer may be the busiest yet for Scottish food banks.

“Food banks cannot, and must not, be a long term to solution to hunger.”