Manchester council to spend £2.5m providing food vouchers for children and families over Christmas
manchestereveningnews.co.ukforced a policy U-turn from Boris Johnson. Funding will cover the two-week Christmas break as well as the one-week holiday during the February half-term next year.Major supermarkets have been asked to provide vouchers worth £15 each, bringing the total value to £1.9m, to cover the three weeks of holiday.Most of the money in Manchester will be passed to schools to hand out to families entitled to benefit-related free school meals.Around 32,000 children and young people fall within this category, a number which has increased by 2,000 since the Covid-19 outbreak and is expected to grow even further in the coming months.A report due to go before the council’s executive on Wednesday says: “Although it is acknowledged that there are many benefits.
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