free school meals over summer. He urged the government to extend the voucher programme used during the coronavirus pandemic.Originally the plan was to stop free meals over summer as usual.However, Marcus, along with experts and campaigners highlighted the issue of “holiday hunger”.
Some experts have said that they have known children to eat loo roll and scavenge bins due to lack of food over the break. Now, 1.3 million children in the UK will get free school meals over summer.It’s especially important now that the furlough scheme is coming to an end.Millions of parents could be made redundant.Some schools will issue supermarket vouchers, while others plan to hand out food parcels.The parcels will be delivered with the help of food suppliers.