A quarter of a million of London’s children are living in food poverty, a City Hall report has warned.

It comes after a 2021 survey by mayor Sadiq Khan found 14% of under 16s in the capital had “low” or “very low” levels of food security - equivalent to around 237,129 children.

Now a new report asserts that the current figure is expected to be “much higher”, at 250,000 and rising, and warns action is “a matter of urgency to stop children going hungry”.

Labour assembly member Marina Ahmad, who led the report, said: “It is heart-breaking that children go to school, go out to play and go to bed, hungry."

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