“It provides one hot, healthy, balanced meal every day that their parents can’t always prepare for them, she told a LACA webinar yesterday (June 24th).
Its Holiday Activities and Food programme will support up to 50,000 disadvantaged children across 17 local authority areas with the aim to help them to stay healthy and active over the summer.
One of the initiatives, put in place by LTS Catering, part of Leicestershire County Council’s trading arm, is the publication of a ‘return to work’ document intended for staff.
Commencing at the start of the new 2020 academic year, the partnership will run for an initial five year term and is valued at £18m.
The move, announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesman today, followed a nationally publicised appeal from Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford and ahead of a
The player, who says he and his family had relied on breakfast clubs and free school meals when he was younger, has weighed into the debate about continuing to help pupils on free school meals thro
“We need to get kids back to school as soon as we can for their health.
Just over half of pupils who would have received free school meals at school stated they had eaten no fresh vegetables across a three-day period following the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown.
These have included schools that have used their kitchens to create community hubs preparing food for delivery or pick up to vulnerable people in their local communities, including the elderly and