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Rashford brings food brand giants

together to tackle child food poverty

FOOTBALLER Marcus hol days n England. pol cy.
Rashford has formed a taskforce Mr Rashford has spoken about e taskforce s call ng for three
w th some of the UK's b ggest food h s own exper ences of us ng a food pol cy recommendat ons by the
brands to try to help reduce ch ld voucher scheme as a ch ld and was Nat onal Food Strategy to be fun-
food poverty. pra sed for press ng the govern- ded by the government as soon as
e 22-year-old Manchester Un - ment nto a U-turn on the ssue. poss ble:
ted forward successfully campa- e group of supermarkets, bu- Expand ng free school meals to
gned to extend free school meals s nesses and char t es - nclud ng every ch ld from a household on
th s summer. Ald , Asda, Co-op, Del veroo, Fa- Un versal Cred t or equ valent, re-
He has wr tten to MPs, outl n ng reShare, Food Foundat on, Ice- ach ng an add t onal 1.5m ch ldren
the help he feels some fam l es st ll land, Kellogg's, L dl, Sa nsbury's, aged seven to 16 UK slips 13 places in global
need. ey nclude expand ng the Tesco and Wa trose - have formed Expand ng an ex st ng school ho-
numbers who are el g ble for free a taskforce and backed proposals l day food and act v t es program- broadband speed table
school meals - and o er them free from the Nat onal Food Strategy, me to support all ch ldren on free
food and act v t es dur ng school an ndependent rev ew of UK food school meals n all areas of Eng-
land. nstead of the current 50,000 THE UK has fallen 13 places w der reg on.
ch ldren that are helped down the global broadband spe- Br ta n ranks 22nd out of 29
Increas ng the value of the Healt- ed rank ngs and s now among the countr es n western Europe. e
hy Start vouchers - wh ch help pa- slowest n western Europe, accor- table s based on 557 m ll on broad-
rents w th ch ldren under the age d ng to new f gures. band speed tests conducted across
of four and pregnant women buy An annual table comp led by Cab- 221 countr es.
some bas c foods - from £3.10 to le.co.uk showed Br ta n fall ng to L echtenste n tops the global table
£4.25 per week, and expand ng t 47th place, down from 34th a year w th average speeds of 229.98Mbps
to all those on Un versal Cred t or ago. w th the US n 20th on 71.30 Mbps
equ valent, reach ng an add t onal e f gures suggest t would typ - and South Sudan bottom w th
290,000 people cally take tw ce as long to download 0.58Mbps.
e taskforce says mplement ng a f lm n the UK than the average for Earl er th s year, MPs launched
the three recommendat ons would western Europe. an nqu ry look ng at how real st c
mark a "un fy ng step to dent f- at s because the average broad- the government's pledge s to br ng
y ng a long-term solut on to ch ld band speed of 37.82Mbps s just un- h gh-speed nternet to every home
poverty n the UK". der half of that of 81.19Mbps for the and bus ness by 2025.