The healthy eating initiative has three main aims, to improve people’s access to sustainable food, to address food insecurity and increase access to food education.
A wide range of activities have been planned to deliver these goals throughout the public sector at schools, hospitals and care homes. The healthy eating initiative will also launch a sustainable food consumption campaign.
Councillor Chris Kane said: “Access to affordable, quality food is a basic human right that must be available to everyone in the Stirling area.
“This wide-ranging framework sets us on a course to reduce health and income inequalities which is a key council priority and sits within the inclusive growth aims of the Stirling Plan. We now need to rise to the challenge along with our community partners to ensure we deliver on these ambitions.”
The draft framework was approved on 30 January 2020 at a meeting of Stirling Council’s Community Planning and Regeneration Committee, with a final version to come back to the committee in May.
Maureen Bennison, vice convener, added: “Food insecurity is a complex matter and not all the solutions are available locally, but taking actions on the three priorities we have identified in the framework will help families and communities out of poverty.
“It will be important that all partners continue to collaborate to ensure we can make Stirling a Good Food City – a place where everyone can access healthy, affordable and sustainable food.”