Author name: Cressida Pidgeon

New report: Breastfeeding in focus: Insights from the sector

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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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Report launch: Food procurement and provision in early years settings: A Yorkshire case study

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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

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Food insecurity among elderly people – an overlooked issue that demands urgent attention. 

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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.

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Closing the Hunger Gap: The Urgent Case for Free School Meal Auto-Enrolment

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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 This International School Meals Day, we are confronted with a stark reality: under the Department for Education’s outdated ‘opt-in’ approach, 11% of eligible children

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Report launch: Breaking down barriers to breastfeeding to support healthy weight in childhood

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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,

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