SVA’s submission to the National Food Security Strategy

Social Ventures Australia has provided input to Feeding Australia: National Food Security Strategy

Our submission draws on SVA’s expertise in the early years space, as well as our emerging work exploring the importance of children and families’ access to safe, adequate and nutritious food. 

Our response is focused on several specific recommendations: 

• Integrate a specific focus on children and families in the final Strategy.
• Draw on contemporary research including lived experience of children and families and the expertise of stakeholders working at the intersect of food insecurity and early childhood development to ensure the Strategy remains responsive to emerging developments.
• Leverage opportunities through the Australian Government’s Early Years Strategy 2024-2034, to drive a more systemic approach to ensuring all children have access to nutritious food.
• Examine opportunities to harness the potential of ECEC to address food insecurity in early childhood.
• Explore options to support and expand effective, sustainable locally-led solutions to food insecurity that empower parents/carers and families, including Early Childhood Hubs.
• Consider a range of measures to address the affordability of food including mandating ceiling prices for selected essential/healthy food items.
• Include data collection, monitoring and reporting as a key priority.

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