Marcus Rashford launches new taskforce to help millions more kids going hungry in UK
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mirror.co.ukEngland star Marcus Rashford is leading a new campaign to help the millions of children going hungry in the UK. The footballer hopes to get the Government to expand free school meals to include every child from a home receiving benefits, helping an extra 1.5 million.
His Child Food Poverty Task Force, launching today, wants the emergency Covid holiday meals scheme to continue and cover all school breaks.
It currently operates in 17 local authorities and he wants it to be to extended to all areas in England to help 1.1 million more children.
He wants Healthy Start food vouchers to rise from £3.10 to £4.25 a week. The recommendations were made in the National Food Strategy report, written by Leon restaurants founder Henry Dimbleby, and
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