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4.1 million UK children live in poverty, but how many of these children experience food insecurity? How does it affect their lives and what could be done about it? The Trussell Trust gave food parcels to 500,000+ people in 2014/15 - half went to children. On 25 April 2019, at Westminster, young people joined actor Dame Emma Thompson, ambassador for the Children’s Future Food Inquiry, to launch a report calling for urgent political action on child food insecurity. The CFFI spent a year investigating this problem across the UK, and its final report compiles the experiences of hundreds of young people, academics and experts. Sharon Hodgson, its co-chairwoman, said, ‘Children are falling through the safety net. They need support from the Government in order to have access to healthy and affordable food’. See