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Food insecurity: Marcus Rashford leads campaign to extend FSM to 1.5 million more pupils

School food Pastoral issues Safeguarding Pupil wellbeing
Fourteen per cent of UK families report having suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity in the last six months – affecting an estimated 2.3 million children.


This is up from pre-Covid levels of around 11.5 per cent and comes as the newly formed Child Food Poverty Taskforce – set up by footballer Marcus Rashford – has begun lobbying government for action on child food insecurity.

The figures come from new YouGov research – commissioned by charity The Food Foundation – involving more than 2,300 parents of school-age children.

The research finds that 12 per cent of adults living with children reported skipping meals because they could not afford or access food in the last six months; four per cent said they had gone for a whole day without eating at times.

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