This week we’re celebrating the publication of Dayna Brackley’s lead-author paper, co-written with Rebecca Wells, from the Centre for Food Policy at City St George’s, University of London. When supermarket shelves were stripped bare in early 2020, panic-buying became one of the most visible aspects of the Covid-19 crisis. But how did the media influence […]
Bremner & Co is really pleased to partner with the FixOurFood Free School Meals (FSM) Auto-enrolment project, which, with the backing of nearly 100 organisations, is calling on the government to use the upcoming Children’s Wellbeing Bill to introduce FSM auto-enrolment nationwide. An estimated 470,000 children in England are eligible for FSM but missing out
Bremner & Co are delighted to have been commissioned by Newham Council to to write a ‘think piece’ about the financial pressures, incentives and counter-incentives that shape the food offer in secondary schools. The research project emerged from the council’s wider ‘We Are Food Secure 11-19’ project, which sets out to understand the experiences of
Nutrition in the early years is crucial for a child’s health, growth and development. There is extensive evidence highlighting the benefits of breastfeeding and national policy encourages breastfeeding into the second year of life and beyond. Yet, breastfeeding remains a challenging area in the UK (which has some of the lowest breastfeeding rates globally), and
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Yesterday, Dayna Brackley, Partner at Bremner & Co, presented the findings of a new FixOurFood report on food procurement and provision in early years settings in Yorkshire, which she wrote with Annie Connolly (The Food Foundation), Maria Bryant and Bob Doherty (FixOurFood) and Cressida Pidgeon (Bremner & Co). The report addresses a crucial evidence gap
Cressida Pidgeon is Research and Projects Officer at Bremner & Co. She regularly dives deep into the data on child food security and nutrition issues. Here she highlights the issue of food insecurity among the elderly in the UK, one that is not addressed as frequently or urgently in today’s conversations around access to food.
Today, Myles Bremner joined 129 signatories, representing charities, councils and academia, in a letter to Schools Minister, Damian Hinds, demanding the automatic enrolment of all eligible children in free school meals. This International School Meals Day, we are confronted with a stark reality: under the Department for Education’s outdated ‘opt-in’ approach, 11% of eligible children
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We are really pleased to see the launch of The Food Foundation’s report Breaking down barriers to breastfeeding to support healthy weight in childhood. Dayna Brackley and Cressida Pidgeon were key contributors to the report with their research on the local and national policy landscape, barriers and enablers to initiation and longevity, funding and infrastructure,
