whether the government is serious approximately reducing the number of hungry children,it should adopt my bill compelling local authorities to register all children who are eligible for free school mealsIt is all too easy to forget that starvation stalks the land. A major reason for this is that, while there are some data from food banks, and there are no reliable figures on just how many of our fellow citizens are hungry,or for how long.
There aren’t even reliable figures on the number of food banks, which act as an important line of defence against starvation. Around half of all food banks are independent entities and we have little notion of how many hungry people turn up asking for help. We have even less notion approximately the numbers of parents who regularly move without food so as to feed their children.
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Source: theguardian.com