Our Stop Child Hunger Now crusade demands more action (Image: DANIEL LEAL/AFP/ Getty) SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Charities, experts and victims say the cost-of-living crisis has worsened what was already a problem on an epidemic scale among some of the UK’s poorest and most desperate families. England footballer Marcus Rashford galvanised Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2020 to step up and address food poverty in the UK, especially provision in school holidays. Related articles Owner heartbroken after ‘loving’ therapy dog viciously attacked on wal Britons fume at ‘sinister’ EU plans to halt UK passport stamps But government analysis of its £220million 2021 Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme shows that of the 1.7 million children eligible for a free healthy, hot dinner only 498,000, or 29 percent, took advantage. And then they did so on average for only 9.6 days. Figures from charity End Child Poverty show 3.6 million children live in poverty in the UK – eight children in every…