Dudley Council, Dudley Council for Voluntary Service (DCVS) and the area’s public health and wellbeing board put out a call to staff to be redeployed to deliver packed lunches to children identified by schools as eligible for free school meals after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced schools would close from 20 March due to the coronavirus crisis.
Some 5,869 parcels, containing a sandwich, fruit, a healthy snack and a yoghurt were delivered to homes across the borough – averaging around 500 deliveries a day – to ensure families reliant on free school meals did not struggle before the government made supermarket vouchers worth £15 per week available.
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