No child should pay the price of the cost of living crisis - but 30% of children in the UK live in poverty.
Years of stagnant wages and cuts to benefits payments have left parents on the lowest incomes, including those who are working, desperately struggling.
The Observer has reported heartbreaking accounts of children so hungry they are eating rubbers, or pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox because they didn't want friends knowing there was no food at home.
And empty stomachs make it harder for children to concentrate at school - putting their futures at risk.