Newcastle free school meal promise after Labour fears that children go could hungry over half-term
Instead of extending free school meals over the February half-term, food will come from the government s Covid Winter Grant Scheme funding distributed by local councils
13:22, 1 FEB 2021
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Calls for kids to be given free school meals over February half term
Campaigners have succeeded in persuading the government to continue the benefit in previous school holidays (Image: Getty Images)
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PARENTS in Bolton whose children are on free school meals will be given a £20 voucher, over the half-term period. The announcement was made as local schools and Town Hall chiefs praised Bolton s catering service for the food parcels it has been providing to cash-strapped families during lockdown as families elsewhere in the country shared pictures of the meagre food parcels they had received. And it has been a very different picture in Bolton, with one headteacher sharing a food parcel put together by the team at Bolton Council which was then topped up by a generous donation. Jenni Willis, head of St Teresa s RC School in Little Lever, said: We were so pleased with the boxes which came from our Bolton School Meals service and we also had a donation, which shows the whole community pulling together.