The digitalisation of food assistance in England is reshaping access to welfare, emergency food aid and broader community support. Yasmin Houamed, Susanne Jaspars and Iris Lim follow argue that the expansion of “hubs” and ‘wrap-around’ services may provide food and digital support in the short term, but risks further normalising emergency food aid. They call this effect the ‘hub-ification’ of social support. This blog discusses the growth of ‘hub-ification’, their benefits and risks, including how it leads to a fragmented and unaccountable system that fails to address the causes of food insecurity’

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