Hello from Deb David

Hi from Exeter

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Hello from Glasgow.

Good morning everyone. Thank you for arranging this...

Hi Christina!

Hi from Lancashire, sound all good here

Good morning everyone. Thanks Anna and morning to you Zoe.

good morning from Leeds!

Hi All, Good evening from Adelaide , Australia

Hi from Marlene NHS Ayrshire & Arran

good morning from Kim Newstead, public health Scotland, community food and health team

hi everyone Peter Taylor-Gooby from Kent

Morning all, Jayne Jones here from ASSIST FM

Hallo, Anna Round from IPPR North here

Morning, Nika Strukelj from Jamie Oliver Group and Bite Back 2030

Hi, Nathan and Kevin, Rethink Food

Hi, all! Jenny Rosborough from Jamie Oliver

morning everyone, and thanks Food Foundation team. Lucy Westerman, NCD Alliance here.

Good Morning from Cardiff - Katie from Food Sense Wales

Hi - Rebecca from the Food Foundation. The link to Dr Rachel Loopstra’s in-depth analysis to download is available here: http://foodfoundation.org.uk/publications/

It's Zoe here - can everyone please mute themselves so that we don't pick up background noise??

Thanks so much!

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Report_COVID19FoodInsecurity-final.pdf

Don’t forget that some of the issues around lack of food in shops is also due to food deserts - so paucity of food available anyway

Is it possible to see this data on income for each region?

We are particularly interested in seeing the data relating to the London region

Would be good to see FSM info across all three nations - there is no national substitute voucher in Scotland and in many areas provision is still only collect a packed lunch daily

Is there any indication about the types of loans taken out - are they through payday loan companies or banks?

Thank-you for the presentation most insightful

Thanks for a great piece of work! Critical at this critical time!

I’d say yes. That’s definitely what we are seeing on the ground.

Hi everyone from Matthew in Cornwall; thankyou for this brilliant research & analysis. 2 Qs:

1. is FSM eligibility increasing quickly and how is this being handled by LAs?

2. clarification please on graph showing hholds with childrn and hholds with single parents

I think your recommendations are spot on. Are you seeing any signs within the Govt Depts identified moving towards acting on those?

Agreed Megan. Lots of families not collecting lunches.

Hi Clara, that data for London has a large enough base so I will send that over to you after the webinar. Thanks, Shona

Wonderful, thanks so much. That’s so helpful to us on as a funder and on the frontline

Did you ask anything around people taking up Healthy Start - similar point to Matthews around increasing FSM eligability ...

There is an increase in FSM applications

In terms of recommendations, e.g.. ‘scaling up’ local government response/action, is it possible for this to be standardised? I am not sure?…Surely local/regional responses will vary…? by my own experience (and locally in Plymouth) this very much depends on local infrastructure, emergency food provision scale/scope and general funding (or lack of) for community food projects…? sharing best practice is good idea (e.g. Sustainable Food Places activities - response to cover??)….but our experiences in SW are probably very different from those in SE (London)…??

Mixed responses in Scotland on FSM not just vouchers and collection of packed lunches.

The strain on head teachers/schools with voucher delivery and food banks around my area (gas board helping with deliveries?) where I volunteer is enormous : any idea of leadership from this govt. on this going forward?

Dundee FSM approach: A direct weekly payment of £11.25 per child will be made into the accounts of families who qualify, where the Council holds bank details. If the Council does not hold a family's bank details and they are eligible, they may receive a text message asking them to contact the Council. Also included are children in a nursery which is part of the additional hours pilot scheme, and any child in a nursery who would normally get free school meals.Of pupils in P1 to P3, only those who receive the school clothing grant will qualify. Payments for P4 to S6 will be based on free school meals entitlement. Vouchers will be available as a safety net in case bank details for some families cannot be confirmed. Payments will be backdated until 23rd March, the date from which the Council was unable to provide the normal free school meals service.

are you talking to Scottish and Welsh government too? first rec would be needed in each nation cos they’re devolved matters?

There was some confusion about where the FSM vouchers are eligible for - is it up to the individual schools to set that or is it the advice from the govt (which doesn’t include many of the shops which are the only option in some areas)

Concerned that the amount in Scotland is low - based on the price of FSM not LA expenditure. CPAG call was for £20 per week per child to recognise that schools have economies of scale that families in poverty do not.

We're talking to Welsh Gov on a daily basis and influencing as far as possible re a co-ordinated response.

CYPCS are also talking with SG

Fantastic piece of work from you all - it is great to see resilience and such a rapid response to our shocking period of (covid) crisis…I need to sign off now as have young children who are playing up THANKS

Happy for anyone to email me at niallc@church-poverty.org.uk to discuss helicopter payment to all households in UK

Or to sign letter to Times later in the week…

Completely agree with Teresa on Wholesaler dimension... must also preference local food in any food aid distribution

Yes...I agree Niall...I put forward the child benefit idea as the system is already in place but that is just a start and can be done immediately...as long as the dwp remove the benefit cap (and 2 child policy)

Many thanks for a useful talk and Q&A session, much appreciated.

food access Rachel. Lots of city suburbs don’t have food shops

Comment: The data on the nutritional quality of meals consumed by families during this crisis will be essential for future research on public health issues-

In Wales Gov has directed councils to service FSM through either a)cash payents, b) physical delivery of food/meals c) vouchers - including through holidays. Many councils are now doing cash payments. SOme are intending to used a mixed method approach depending on family circumstance

Food waste is about to become a massive global issue

This was really helpful can we have another zoom soon please. Thank-you

Contact here > office@foodfoundation.org.uk

Thanks to Anna, Rachel and all for an excellent webinar today. Look forward to more. Keep well everyone.

thank you everyone for your time and the food foundation team. Take care

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Thanks so much to you all.