Tag: Children’s Future Food Inquiry

Young People Join Dame Emma Thompson At Westminster To Call For Children’s Food Watchdog

Stuart Mitchell

The Children’s Future Food Inquiry ambassador Dame Emma Thompson joins young ‘Food Ambassadors’ at Westminster to deliver a new report which calls for an independent Children’s Food Watchdog to lead the charge on tackling children’s food insecurity in the UK. The Children’s Future Food Inquiry is the first attempt to directly and systematically seek the views of children and young people living in poverty across the UK. It has spent 12 months investigating children’s food insecurity in each of the four UK nations, and the project’s final report pulls together…

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Children Take UK Food Poverty Into Their Own Hands And Journey To Westminster To Share Real Stories With MPs

Stuart Mitchell

A group of children and young people from across the UK have travelled to the House of Lords to share their experiences of food poverty with the Children’s Future Food Inquiry committee. MPs, peers and civil society experts will hear directly from nine ‘food ambassadors’ between the ages of 10 and 20-years-old, who have journeyed from England, Scotland and Wales to open conversations with policymakers in Westminster. The young people hope that their work with the Children’s Future Food Inquiry will highlight the pervasive nature of food insecurity in the…

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