Published on
12 March 2025
Our research, Nourishing the Future: making healthy food accessible for every child, exposes the barriers many children, young people and their parents face in accessing nutritious and healthy food.
We found that the impact of poor dietary health is greatest on children in poverty, especially those facing structural inequalities, who want to eat healthier diets but often struggle to afford and access healthier foods, which are more expensive, less accessible and less convenient to prepare. This means that they are not getting the nutrition they need for healthy development.
The support currently available – including from schools, health workers, the community and directly from government – is insufficient to overcome these barriers.