Marina Ahmad AM published Growing Hungry at a time when rising child poverty and food insecurity were leaving too many children in London without reliable access to nutritious food. The report highlights the scale of childhood hunger across the capital and makes the case for urgent action to ensure that no child’s education, health or wellbeing was held back by a lack of food.
The report calls for a dedicated Childhood Hunger Commission for London and set out the case for expanding access to free school meals. Its recommendations helped inform the growing campaign for universal provision, contributing to the evidence base that underpinned Sadiq Khan’s decision to introduce universal free school meals for all London primary school children.
It remains a call to go further, tackling the root causes of child poverty and ensuring that every child has access to nutritious food, both in and out of school.
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