Campaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not providing free school meal vouchers during the summer.But eligible pupils received food vouchers over Easter as the country coped with the Covid crisis.
The letter was sent by the food charity Sustain and the Good Law Project, led by the campaigning lawyer Jolyon Maugham.Kath Dalmeny of Sustain said:"I have spent hours and hours and hours of my time on Zoom meetings, on phone calls trying to get this issue noticed by all other means. That has not worked and so we must make people take this seriously."
One woman, Daisy, who has two children, said the amount and standard of food they ate would have to be cut without the vouchers."Having that fifteen pounds a week is a big deal," she told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.
At what point do the government stop....no money for over 60’s women struggling to work till 66...how about making it fair...
the dreaded voucher!! the badge of poverty-if your poor and sensitive you'd rather starve. another gift from the Thatcher era.
It's a disgrace that any child goes hungry in this country.
I can’t believe any government would allow children of school age to starve simply because they are not at school ! Wait ~ yes I can and they are.
Taxpayers shelled out £4.4million to subsidise food and drink at Parliament last year, it can be revealed.(2018 report) Britain spends £118 per day to keep one prisoner in jail (2019 report) The voucher scheme is worth £15 per week for each eligible child. The bigger picture.
Are you going to insist that Barry Gardiner resigns?
Do you normally get free meals in the summer holidays?.
Read the MI6 retiree. WuhanVirus Reparations. Trillions of dollars.
We shall overcome this Chinese invented virus by God grace.