The scheme aims to reduce child poverty and health inequalities by providing free vitamins, nutritional advice and weekly vouchers to buy nutritious food or infant formula to low-income families with pregnant women and children up to the age of four.
All British children, whose parents would meet the financial criteria to claim welfare benefits, but are unable to do so as a result of their immigration status, will now be entitled to support provided under the scheme, it has been announced.
The government U-turn comes after the mother of a one-year-old baby launched legal action over the scheme’s eligibility criteria.
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