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Aine Fox

TV chef: Child poverty strategy must include healthy start scheme improvements

Tom Kerridge is one of the signatories to a letter urging the Government to expand the healthy start scheme (Steve Parsons/PA) - (PA Archive)

Well-known chef Tom Kerridge is among campaigners calling on the Government to do more to tackle food insecurity as part of its forthcoming child poverty strategy.

A scheme to help families with young children buy healthy food is falling short and needs reform to take in more people in need, the campaigners said in a letter.

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