Benefits of universal free school meals

Feed The Future Campaign

Feed the Future is a campaign led by The Food Foundation which is a charity that explores food policy and tries to make healthy diets affordable and accessible for all. They are proposing that FSM should be extended to more children and released a survey showing the overwhelming support from the general public for this. Results from this survey show that 87% of the English public believes the Government has a lot or some responsibility for helping children. Moreover, 72% of the English public think that FSM should be universal and not means-tested. The Feed the Future campaign is led by the Food Foundation but has a multitude of supporters, including Urban Health who commissioned accounting firm PWC to draw up a cost-benefit analysis which can be seen on the next slide (The Food Foundation, 2022).