
20 May 2020 Position Statement: Children living in food poverty
Food Active has published a new position statement on ‘Children living in food poverty’
Our position statements aim to frame the issue, provide a brief review of the evidence, initiatives or regulations currently in place to tackle the issue and our position/action on the matter. Follow the button below to view and download our latest statement, which was written by our student volunteer Chloé Higham-Smith. Many thanks to Chloé for all her hard work on developing the resource.
Position Statement: Children living in food povertyWe have a number of position statements available to view and download, including:
- The benefits of drinking water
- Outdoor advertising of less healthy food and drink
- Takeaways and healthy weight
- Active travel and healthy weight
- Healthier vending
- Energy drinks
- Health harms of high street giveaways
- Food as a safeguarding issue
- Healthy weight in the early years
- Healthy weight in pregnancy
- Healthy weight in preconception
- Sugar sweetened beverages
- Junk food marketing to children
- Childhood obesity
You can access these at the following link: https://foodactive.org.uk/category/position-statement/