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Marcus Rashford has teamed up with the UK’s major supermarkets to create a taskforce to tackle the issue of child food poverty, warning of “devastating” effects on the stability of the UK if action is not taken quickly. The Manchester United and England striker was successful in campaigning for free school meal vouchers to be provided to pupils over the summer period. He had spoken about his own experience of using a food voucher scheme as a child and was praised after pressing the Government into making a U-turn on the issue. Rashford has now teamed up with the food industry to shed light on the issue of child food poverty in the UK. Along with Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Deliveroo, FareShare, Food Foundation, Iceland, Kellogg’s, Lidl, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose, he has formed the Child Food Poverty Task Force. Over the next six weeks, the task force members will dedicate their platforms to sharing stories of those most affected by child food insecurity in the UK. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/
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