Our policy evidence in new House of Lords plan to fix obesity and diet-related disease
Our research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that free school meals reduce children's obesity rates
Our evidence on the impact of universal free school meals on children’s obesity levels has been cited in the new findings of the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee.
The Committee’s report Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system, demands tha tthe Government should develop a comprehensive, integrated long-term new stragey to fix our food system, underpinned by a new legistative framework.
Our research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, found that the introduction of universal free school meals has reduced children’s obesity levels.
Read our research evidence to the Committee’s inquiry here
Read the House of Lords report here