The current generation of children are suffering from "more piecemeal nutritional support from both Conservative and Labour governments" compared with services available to their parents and grandparents, says The Food Foundation.
At the launch of its new Children’s Food Policy Library, which documents the historical changes in government legislation to childhood nutrition and poverty dating back 140 years, Anna Taylor, executive director of The Food Foundation, said that it “casts new light on today’s policy decisions” and reiterates the “urgent” need to extend free school meals to preserve children’s long term health.
