On Thursday 17th January, the Children’s Future Food Inquiry is holding its ‘Food for Thought’ listening event. Nine young food ambassadors between the ages of 10 and 20-years-old will travel from across the UK to meet with parliamentarians and civil society experts at the House of Lords, where they will share their experiences of food insecurity with the Inquiry committee, and open conversations with policy makers about how to tackle the problem. Their visit was featured on Channel 4 news.
The food ambassadors are presenting the new ‘What Young People Say About Food’ report, which finds that one in four children who do not receive school meals have skipped lunch because they cannot afford it. The report was developed with Fixers, who have worked with 300 young people to understand how food insecurity affects them and what changes they believe need to be made.
