The Food Foundation Podcast

In this week's Pod Bites, Callum Morrissey , a 15-year-old Welsh Youth Parliament member of Clwyd West and young ambassador for the Food Foundation, discusses the Youth Parliament's efforts to tackle child poverty in Wales.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.

On this week's Pod Bite, we hear about the launch of two reports on the accessibility of healthy food for children.As part of the Feed the Future campaign, The Food Foundation hosted a special event at Central Hall in Westminster this week to showcase the benefits of Free School Meals has on academic attainment levels, school food quality, food insecurity, obesity, behaviour, school attendance, and local economies.Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Food Foundation, Shona Goudie tells us about the launch of the Superpower of Free School Meals report at the event, while Barnardo's head of Policy and Public Affairs Alesha de Freitas gives us the highlights of its Nourishing the Future report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.

On World Obesity Day, Anna Taylor, Executive Director at the Food Foundation leads a panel discussion on the systems that need to be in place to enable people to maintain a healthy weight and prevent obesity. With Kat Jenner, head of the Obesity Health Alliance, Dr Sophie Harris, consultant in diabetes in general medicine, Dr Stuart Flint, Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity at the University of Leeds and Penny Walters, adult ambassador for the Food Foundation who campaigns for a change in the food system. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.

Tilda Ferree, Senior Advocacy and Policy Officer at the Food Foundation tell us about the latest Food Foundation's Food Insecurity Survey. Click here for more information on the report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.

Dr Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation tells us about a new report from the Competition Markets Authority discussing pricing and access to infant formula. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.

Dan White and Glory Omoaka, two of the food ambassadors for The Food Foundation, tell us about the Photo-Storytelling Exhibition which accompanied the launch of this year's Broken Plate report and aims to bring to a human element to statistics featured in the report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.