Tag: Food Foundation

Expanding Free School Meals would generate up to £41.3bn for the economy

Stuart Mitchell

Expanding Free School Meals could inject up to £41.3bn into the economy, reveals new research from Impact on Urban Health. The research explores two potential expansion scenarios and finds a positive return on investment for both. Universal Credit – expanding free school meals to all children in England from households receiving Universal Credit.  For every £1 invested, £1.38 would be returned, through social, health and educational benefits, resulting in £8.9bn in core benefits. A further £16.3bn of indirect benefits could come through wider economic and supply chain gains, such as…

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New portal launches for cost of living crisis case studies

Stuart Mitchell

The Food Foundation is launching an online portal to share the experiences of people struggling to survive Britain’s cost of living crisis. Breadline Voices Breadline Voices, a new series from The Food Foundation, features powerful case studies highlighting the grim reality facing millions of families plunged into food and fuel poverty as food prices reach a 40-year high. We aim to give politicians, policymakers, businesses and the media access to case studies and people with lived experience of the current cost of living crisis.   The series will be spearheaded by…

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New Data shows food insecurity major challenge to levelling up agenda

Stuart Mitchell

New data released by the  Food Foundation reports that 8.8% of households (4.7 million adults) have experienced food insecurity in the past month. This has increased from 7.3% in July 2021. 3.6% (1 million adults) reported that they or someone in their household has had to go a whole day without eating in the past month because they couldn’t afford or access food (up from 2.6% in July).  This clearly shows that soaring energy and food prices, along with the removal of the £20 uplift to Universal Credit are having…

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Food Foundation Release New Report Showing Pandemic Effect On Food Insecurity Remains A Crisis

Stuart Mitchell

A New Report from the Food Foundation, released as part of the #EndChildFoodPoverty campaign spearheaded by Marcus Rashford, provides further evidence that the pandemic has had a devastating impact on the UK’s most vulnerable populations and that the problem of household food insecurity continues to be at crisis levels. The report urges Government to make food security a priority in recovery planning and move away from short-term solutions, food banks and emergency food aid. Headline Statistics Food insecurity remains higher than pre-Covid levels affecting an estimated 4.7 million adults (9%…

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DWP Launches National Measurement Of Household Food Insecurity

Stuart Mitchell

From April 2019, the Department for Work and Pensions will be including the ten adult questions from the US Government’s survey on household food insecurity into the UK Family Resources Survey.   This is an annual survey, covering all four nations and has a large sample of 20,000 households.  Data is gathered over the course of a year and reported a year later.  In terms of food insecurity measurement, data collection will begin in April 2019 and be reported in April 2021.  There is lots of scope to do analysis at a disaggregated level to understand drivers…

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