Stop shops from selling sugary drinks and sweets to children before 9am

Background

Restrict the sale of these harmful products before 9am could mean a world of difference in keeping our children safe, healthy, and ready to learn. To address this issue, I propose a ban on the sale of sweets and energy drinks to school children before 9am across Middlesbrough.

Additional details

for the past nine years, I've driven to work in Middlesbrough and witnessed an unsettling sight: young children, congregate outside local shops, clutching sugary sweets and energy drinks. This has become a ritual, a troubling start to their day, before they even set foot inside their classroom. Stores should not be profit-driven at the expense of the health and well-being of our community's children. I want the government to ban the sale of fizzy drinks and sweets to children before 9am