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Call for universal free school meals across the UK

More than 40 organisations have joined the call on International School Meals Day

Wales Online

School meals ‘should be free for all just like desks and chairs’

Organisations supporting the call include the Food Foundation, School Food Matters, Child Poverty Action Group and The Children’s Society.

The Independent UK

Britain’s supermarket model is not fit for purpose

Letters: Antony Adorian, Michael Miller and Pete Lavender respond to Henry Dimbleby’s comment about the sector’s ‘weird’ culture

The Guardian - UK

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‘Weird supermarket culture’ to blame for food shortages, says Leon co-founder

Britain’s “weird supermarket culture” is to blame for food shortages, Leon’s co-founder has claimed.

Evening Standard

Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’

Henry Dimbleby says suppliers struggling with rising costs while locked into fixed-price contracts

The Guardian - UK

Extending free meals to all primary schools 'benefits education, health and life chances'

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ensure all primary pupils in England get a proper hot meal, as an estimated 800,000 children living in poverty miss out due to eligibility rules

Daily Mirror

London free school meals plan will show 'irrefutable' case for change, says ex-food tsar

Henry Dimbleby, who authored the National Food Strategy for Boris Johnson, said the game-changing decision by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to offer free school meals to all primary pupils in the capital would prove the benefit of the scheme

Daily Mirror

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CEO who helped save the Co-op from collapse lands new role

Richard Pennycook is a former chairman of THG

Birmingham Post

Ministers ‘run scared’ of targeting meat consumption in land use strategy

Exclusive: England plan will omit aim of reducing area used for animal farming, key to cutting emissions

The Guardian - UK

'Free school meals for ALL kids would ensure every child has opportunity to thrive'

Severe eligibility rules dictates 800,000 children living in poverty miss out on free meals as leading author Henry Dimbleby joins our campaign for no kids to go to class hungry

Daily Mirror

Furious mum blasts school for serving her daughter 'basically empty' ham baguette

The pupil's mum Donna Jones was furious at the sandwich served to her daughter at West Monmouth School in Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, and was sent a photo of her food with hardly any filling in the sandwich

Daily Mirror

‘Hungry kids cannot learn’: Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby backs free school meals campaign

Henry Dimbleby joins calls for the government to give meals to all schoolchildren living in poverty

The Independent UK

Free school meals need to be immediately extended says government food tsar

Henry Dimbleby branded it "one of the best measures we can do", and said extending free school meals to families on Universal Credit is a "no-brainer" that could save the UK billions in the long run

Daily Mirror

Food tsar calls for increase in free school meals in cost-of-living crisis

Henry Dimbleby told MPs that expanding provision was ‘one of the best measures we can do’ to address the impacts of the rising cost of living.

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Daily Mirror

Michael Gove ramps up pressure on Liz Truss to widen free school meals scheme

The Conservative former Education Secretary said all primary pupils should get free school dinners 'in an ideal world' - and right now Liz Truss must extend provision to all households on Universal Credit

Birmingham Post

Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby joins upmarket service station group

He succeeds a former Preston North End chairman as a director of Westmorland

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Earth-friendly diets: cooking animals is cooking the planet

Editorial: Eating less meat will help, but governments remain indispensable actors in solving the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

England must reduce meat intake to avoid climate breakdown, says food tsar

Henry Dimbleby says move is politically toxic but only way to achieve sustainable land use and avoid ecological breakdown

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The Guardian - UK

Campaigners take legal action over failings of England’s food strategy

Global Feedback seeks judicial review of plan for not suggesting less meat and dairy consumption

The Guardian - UK

Fish-finger bhorta, anyone? Let’s make a new England, one recipe at a time

What we imagine when we think of a national cuisine tells us a lot about who we are – and who we want to be, says Lewis Bassett

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on obesity: the public wants better health

Editorial: The UK has a weight problem. By refusing to tackle the causes, ministers are acting as if they don’t care

Manchester Evening News

"No new help for low-income families": Greater Manchester poverty group slams government food strategy

The Food Strategy has come under fire since being leaked to The Guardian late last week.

The Independent UK

What is the government’s food strategy and why is it under fire?

PM says plans will benefit British farmers but blueprint has come in for heavy criticism

The Guardian - UK

Fury as government waters down post-Brexit food standards

Strategy described as ‘missed opportunity’ as final wording merely commits to ‘considering’ animal welfare

The Guardian - UK

Food plan unlikely to beat obesity crisis, leading UK inequalities expert warns

Exclusive: Sir Michael Marmot criticises focus on personal responsibility over official action

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