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Food Crisis UK – Almost 4 million children don’t have enough money for healthy diet

A shocking new report has discovered that nearly four million children in the UK are too poor to have access to a healthy diet. The report, by the Food Foundation, calculated that a family of four needs to spend over £103 to ensure they have a healthy diet rich in vitamins, minerals and other essential […]

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
September 5, 2018
in Environment, Food and Drink, News

A shocking new report has discovered that nearly four million children in the UK are too poor to have access to a healthy diet.

The report, by the Food Foundation, calculated that a family of four needs to spend over £103 to ensure they have a healthy diet rich in vitamins, minerals and other essential food stuffs.

Sadly, around 3.7 million children come from households who earn under £16k a year, which means they are unlikely to be able to afford a healthy diet.

These struggling families would have to spend over 40% of their entire income to hit the government’s nutrition guidelines.

Widening inequality is leading to higher rates of childhood obesity in deprived areas. Now over a quarter (26%) of children in Year 6 are classed as obese compared to only 11% in more affluent places.

Sharon Hodgson MP, Chair of the Children’s Future Food Inquiry committee, said: “It cannot be right that 50% of households in the UK currently have insufficient food budgets to meet the Government’s recommended Eatwell Guide. A healthy diet, which we know is important for our health and development, should not be unaffordable to so many people.

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“I hope that the Government will look into this issue as a matter of urgency, in order to make eating a healthy diet more affordable.”

Anna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation, said: “It’s crucial that a coordinated cross-government effort develops policy that accounts for the cost of its recommended diet, and creates a food system that does not consign those on lower incomes to the risk of diet-related illness.”

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