Ensuring low-income families have adequate access to childcare
High childcare costs have a critical bearing on low-income families’ ability to meet household expenses, stay in work or engage in the training they need to escape poverty, including food poverty. Local authorities have a statutory duty to secure sufficient childcare provision for the needs of working parents in their area. Local authorities may also choose to fund some kind of food provision as part of the local free childcare entitlement.
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What is food poverty?
Food Power
London Food Poverty Campaign
Beyond the Food Bank
Achieving everyone's Right to Food
Taking action
What are the steps that local authorities can take to reduce food poverty beyond the foodbank?
Improving the uptake of Healthy Start vouchers
Promoting breastfeeding via the Baby Friendly Initiative
Harnessing the value of children’s centres
Ensuring low-income families have adequate access to childcare
Ensuring children’s access to food 365 days a year
Supporting fair pay by promoting the Real Living Wage to the local council and employers
Ensuring all residents have physical access to good food
Supporting and enhancing meals on wheels provision
Supporting services that provide financial crisis support and advice
Developing an action plan to tackle food poverty
Transforming meals on wheels
