Boris Johnson vowed “no child will go hungry this Christmas” in a second U-turn on the provision of free school meals during school holidays after Conservative MPs voted against plans to support vulnerable families out of term time.
The Prime Minister has unveiled a multi-million pound winter support package including a £170m grant for local authorities and a £220m expansion of the government’s Holiday Food and Activities Programme as well as plans to increase the value of Healthy Start vouchers for women and an additional £16m for inundated food distribution charities.
Here, CYP Now unpicks the details of the package sent to local authorities before an “urgent” meeting was held to “discuss delivery arrangements” of the grant just six weeks before the Christmas holidays.
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