Food Solution

FatCat

FatCat

Well-known member
I read this and I quite like the idea, if this gvt (and that is the tricky part) could be trusted to implement if at speed I think it is a very positive solution because it will:

1. ensure children are fed during the day
2. Allow extra learning ( to catch up on hours missed)
3. Give children structure and improve mental health.

sounds very promising - anybody else think it’s a good idea?

https://news.sky.com/story/free-school-meals-holiday-clubs-idea-offers-pm-way-out-of-row-12115831
 
FatCat said:
I read this and I quite like the idea, if this gvt (and that is the tricky part) could be trusted to implement if at speed I think it is a very positive solution because it will:

1. ensure children are fed during the day
2. Allow extra learning ( to catch up on hours missed)
3. Give children structure and improve mental health.

sounds very promising - anybody else think it’s a good idea?

https://news.sky.com/story/free-school-meals-holiday-clubs-idea-offers-pm-way-out-of-row-12115831
Click to expand...
This is widely done by charities at the moment. Interesting to see how much money is put into it and whether it will cover the costs. It looks like the summer was reasonably well funded for the 17 councils.
 
The £63m trotted out by the PM and others to help fund free school meals?

Turns out this was part of the emergency measures at the start of the pandemic. It was distributed to councils but had to be spent by Oct 2nd.

The way to feed kids is to have leadership that cares and not have these people rely on charitable handouts.
 
Looking at the article they may be planning to do this - politics aside I like the idea, like I say if they can implement it correctly it has more positives than negatives.
 
Whilst it’s a good idea in principle it would need proper implementation and we’d need to know who would run these clubs, who would fund the clubs and at what cost ?

If they are properly funded, resourced, staffed and fill gaps in education not covered in the normal curriculum then I think they’ll be of real benefit but my concern is that the additional cost to does this properly will see them scrapped as not cost effective, other countries, in Scandinavia for example, have similar schemes that run successfully and this would be quite a socially focused policy for a Conservative government to implement.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top