Children and young people living in poverty in the UK will gain better access to healthy food, help create a healthy living toolkit and become advocates for health policy thanks to a new partnership announced today between the children’s charity Barnardo’s and AstraZeneca, as part of the pharmaceutical company’s Young Health Programme UK. Around 2.6 million children in the UK are living in food insecure households (18% of all children)* with a lack of access to a nutritious diet which can create life-long impacts on their health. Those benefitting from the partnership will include children and young people with experience of growing up in care, who are living alone for the first time and young…
Read MoreBarnardo’s and AstraZeneca team up on the Young Health Programme to support thousands of children, young people and families in the UK
