Eighty per cent of the public in England now believe the government should extend free school meals to all children in households receiving universal credit (UC), up from 72 per cent when we launched our Feed the Future campaign five months ago.
The YouGov poll of 8,000 respondents comes as new data from the Food Foundation shows that the number of households in England with children in poverty has nearly doubled to 22 per cent, up from 11.6 per cent in January 2022, with 3.7 million children affected.
