This is utterly shameful

Yes EV which is why both the government (spent billions helping) and all charities including now UNICEF are all doing what they can.

For the North West, probably, Luckygirl ---not.
We had the highest deaths because those ministers in the South keep forgetting we exist, so there was poverty to start with through lack of jobs/work. The difference is evident.

This point has rattled me for years.

Mortgage/rent or food ? You can't do both if you have children and are out of work.

And it has nothing at all to do with years of austerity and the scrapping of Sure Start and other programmes for helping families. ..............?

There are thousands without jobs due to Covid don't forget.

It’s not shocking at all.Read about it properly, not just comments by grans on here.
It’s a grant by UNICEF UK, because they say it’s the worse thing (Covid) to hit us since World War 2.Other European countries may follow with these donations from UNICEF, have to wait and see.The grants are small beer in themselves
But are being added to what other groups are doing.
There are many reasons that children don’t get enough to eat, and not all linked to poverty, as one in five who are already getting food help/ breakfast boxes are not eligible for free school meals.What UNICEF is doing ( giving a grant ) is very good as it wants to pitch in nationally with other charities.
Charity does begin at home, and they have realised this.

That's shocking

"UN humanitarian aid agency Unicef are providing over £700,000 in emergency funding to feed hungry children in the UK, for the first time in their 70 year history. This is the first time Unicef have launched a domestic emergency response in the UK, with money going to "over 30 communities up and down the" country."

So sad......I hope the government are reading this. Some hopes.

Undoubtedly this will be talked down by our wonderful government, and they will be backed very ably by their supporters who will line up to tell us that (a) you shouldn't have children if you can't feed them (b)they or their sainted Mother could feed a family of five on a lamb bone and two carrots (c) if the parents ( preferably single Mothers) didn't spend all their money on the latest I-phone and/or a flat screen tv then they would be able to feed their children.

In the UK .I dont think its unexpected to be honest the foodbanks are overwhelmed .Poverty levels are sky high .We have several new charities organising food for vulnerable families locally .Not just food ,warm clothes and some christmas cheer for little ones .Its shocking that in the 21st century people have to resort to charity to feed their families .