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Marcus Rashford's open letter to Government in full as star calls for kids' meal scheme extension
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Marcus Rashford has called on the government to reconsider its decision not to extend the current food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.
The scheme was set up to effectively guarantee meals to those children who would have ordinarily been reliant on free school meals during the coronavirus lockdown.
But Manchester United and England forward Rashford, who raised £20million to boost food distribution with the charity FareShare, is concerned the plan to end the scheme next month will affect some of the most vulnerable in society.
In an open letter to the government, Rashford said "the Government has taken a 'whatever it takes' approach to the economy" and wants them to "extend that same thinking to protecting all vulnerable children
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