Submitted on Wednesday 17th June 2020
Rejected on Friday 24th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Continue the provision of free school meals during ALL holidays.
It is great to see that the UK government has made the decision to extend the free school meal voucher scheme into the summer holidays in light of the corona virus crisis.
However we believe that this should be provided every year, for every holiday.
According to the BBC in England alone about 1.3 million children claimed for free school meals in 2019, or about 15% of state-educated pupils. During the holidays these children still need to eat (pandemic or no pandemic) and are put at risk of going hungry.
If the scheme has been deemed to be possible to extend into holidays this year this means that is surely is possible to happen every year. If it is possible then why would we allow children to potentially not getting a meal?
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Since you started your petition, the Government has extended the voucher scheme to cover the school summer holidays. For more information visit: www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-summer-food-fund.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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