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Campaigns for change look to generate changes in several areas. Some policies will look to change a particular policy of a governmental agency, such as the disclosure of sex offenders in the local area which is covered by the Sarah’s Law campaign. Other campaigns look to change the law to make an act illegal or change a legal statute, such as the abolition of the double jeopardy law which meant that individuals could not be tried for an offence once acquitted of that same offence. Other campaigns focus on changing the priorities of specific agencies. For example, recent campaigns against the deportation of the Windrush migrants that have been living, working and raising families in the UK since the 1940s and 50s. Another purpose of campaigns for change is to amend the funding available for specific needs in society. A recent example of this was the pressure placed upon the government by footballer Marcus Rashford to provide more funding for those children on free-school meals over the school holidays who had been hit hardest by the economic hardships of the COVID pandemic.