What are the steps that local authorities can take to reduce food poverty beyond the foodbank?

Improving the uptake of Healthy Start vouchers

Healthy Start is the UK’s food welfare scheme for pregnant women and young children in low-income families, who are amongst the groups most at...

Promoting breastfeeding via the Baby Friendly Initiative

Breastfeeding improves the health and wellbeing of both mothers and babies

Harnessing the value of children’s centres

Children’s centres can play a critical role in supporting families at risk of food poverty.

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...

Ensuring children’s access to food 365 days a year

Free school meals are a critical safety net. For 10% of children, school lunch can be their biggest meal of the day. But children may need more than...

Supporting fair pay by promoting the Real Living Wage to the local council and employers

Local employers and authorities can help people on a low income to eat well, by paying and promoting the London Living Wage.

Ensuring all residents have physical access to good food

Those on low incomes often live in areas where convenience stores (with a limited range of goods) or fast food outlets predominate.

Supporting and enhancing meals on wheels provision

Nationally more than 1.3 million people over the age of 65 are malnourished.

Supporting services that provide financial crisis support and advice

Boosting people’s incomes - either directly for example through council tax reduction, or indirectly through information and advice on tax,...

Developing an alliance and action plan to tackle food poverty

Local food poverty action plans allow local authorities, community organisations and other partners to work together to identify risks, assess the...

Share Get updates

Food Poverty: Over 8 million people in the UK struggle to get enough to eat. Sustain is working with communities, third-sector organisations, local authorities and government, aiming to make sure everyone can eat well.

Support our work

Your donation will help communities identify ways to alleviate food poverty and increase access to healthy food.

Donate