Survey finds rising number of childcare providers forced to turn to food charities to help provide nutritious meals
Ministers are facing calls to help nurseries continue providing nutritious meals amid evidence that growing numbers of young children are arriving hungry.
Analysis of a survey of 500 childcare providers and professionals, shared exclusively with the Observer, found that rising food costs were having an impact on the vast majority of them. Almost one in 10 said they had turned to food redistribution charities to help provide food in their settings.
