Holiday Hunger in the UK: Local Responses to Childhood Food Insecurity

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom.

The book begins by outlining the history and scope of holiday hunger – the condition that occurs when a child’s household is, or will become, food insecure during the summer holidays. The decline of the UK welfare state and the rise of neoliberalism have created a situation where up to three million children in the UK face food insecurity during the summer months when ther...