Tanya Dando

I've heard families talk about the fruit bowl becomes out of reach for the kids now because we don't want them eating it all at once and then it's going and there's no fruit left.

It's kind of rationed.

All kinds of ways in which families have to take steps to make sure that they can still put a meal on the table.

And that often means compromising on health.

Top of the list has to be putting some high level of protection in for those most at risk.

So by that we mean the youngest children in the poorest households.

Those are the children that are, you know, if they don't get support at the right time, it's too late.

They're laying down the foundations for their future health when they're young.

So we have a scheme called Healthy Start, which provides vouchers for very low income families with children under the age of four.

to buy fruit and veg, milk and a few other basic nutritious foods.

At the moment, the value of that voucher is £4.65 a week.

It's not aligned with inflation and needs to be, needs to be higher.

We also think it should be extended to four-year-olds because at the moment four-year-olds are excluded.

So there's a kind of gap between children when they start school and become eligible for free school meals.

We'd also like to see the eligibility extended.

You have to be extremely poor to qualify, and we think it makes sense to say, well, for all families that are dependent on universal credit, let's make sure that their kids qualify.

The government does offer direct intervention already for very energy intensive users.

So like steelworks, glassmakers, those sorts of people.

It could offer exactly the same for large food factories, for example, to help them with their bills.

But more generally, every business pays this levy for non-commodity costs.