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Food our children can count on

Food is costing more and getting harder to grow as our climate changes. Join parents and carers asking the government to make food security for our children a national priority.

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EVERY DAY, PARENTS AND CARERS PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE. IT’S GETTING HARDER. OUR KIDS DESERVE A FOOD SYSTEM THEY CAN COUNT ON.

IT’S GETTING HARDER TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE

The weekly shop is costing more and more. Floods, droughts and heatwaves are hitting UK farms and harvests, and the same extreme weather is hitting the countries we import much of our food from. These shocks end up in our kitchens and in our children’s lunchboxes.

In October 2026, more than 150 experts, food organisations and community groups warned the government that the UK has no plan to feed people in a crisis.

THE GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THIS

In March 2026 the government published England’s first Land Use Framework, committing to food security alongside nature recovery.

Now it needs to deliver.

Parents and carers across the UK are coming together to ask for one thing: food our children can count on.

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So parents and carers across the UK are coming together to ask for one thing: food our children can count on.

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1. Make food security for our children a national priority

Deliver a proper, joined-up food strategy that protects families from shortages, price shocks and climate impacts. Find out more:

The Good Food Bill: more than 100 organisations, from supermarkets to children’s charities, are calling for a law that puts food security on a long-term footing.
Experts warn the UK has no plan to feed people in a crisis: the October 2026 open letter calling for local food resilience committees and food storage.

2. Back the farmers who feed our families

Support UK farmers to grow more healthy, climate-resilient food for families here, with more plants on our plates. Ensure drinking water and farming are protected before approving major new water users, like large data centres. Find out more:

Eating Better: an alliance of 70+ organisations working for less and better meat and more plants on our plates.
Not a drop to drink: Global Action Plan’s report on how the data centre boom threatens England’s water security.
Water UK’s warning to MPs that official water forecasts leave out data centres.

3. Provide healthy food for children at school

Make sure school food is bought locally and in line with the Eatwell Guide. Improve guidelines, support, and monitoring so our children have healthy food available in schools. Find out more:

School Food Standards: updating the legislative framework: the government’s overhaul of school food rules, with new standards due from September 2027.
The Eatwell Guide: the government’s guide to a healthy, balanced diet.
Local food procurement funding: the government’s March 2026 grants to councils, and its aim for at least half of public sector food to be local or sustainably certified.

4. Keep our promises on climate

Meet our legally binding climate targets, cut emissions faster, and honour our commitments to help other countries adapt, so families here and around the world can put food on the table. Find out more:

The Climate Change Act 2008: the law that commits the UK to net zero by 2050.
The Seventh Carbon Budget: the Climate Change Committee’s advice on the UK’s path to net zero, including changes to farming and diets.
UK International Climate Finance: MPs’ September 2026 report warning that aid cuts have undermined the UK’s climate finance commitments.

5. Listen to parents

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Angela Eagle, should meet with parents and carers to offer assurances and hear what food security means for our families

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So parents and carers across the UK are coming together to ask for one thing: food our children can count on.

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