Isn't that just a standard half-term pub offer? People who can't afford to feed their kids aren't going to be buying an adult main meal. If you're just sharing because you thought people might like to know and this is nothing to do with the free school meals debacle then fair enough.
Cant afford to ensure kids living in poverty can have a meal, but give themselves a nice pay rise of 3k a year in the middle of a pandemic, absolute creatures. It's good to see so many businesses, restaurants, cafes etc giving out free meals to children who already get free school meals but they really shouldn't have to.
can afford 500 million quid do that people who can afford to go to restaurants can get their meal cheaper or 12 billion for dildo hardon and China but not for hungry kids. Absolute weapons.
Leave the poor MP's alone it must be hard living on thousands of pounds wage + exspenses + subsided meals and booze.
My brother got free school meals and wouldn’t go in line at school to get them because of stigma,you had to line up in free school dinner line Wonder how many parents would turn up in school holidays to get the meal,if they won’t cook them a dinner why would they be bothered to take them for one
That’s not how it would work, the parents would get a voucher for £15 each week of the holidays that can be spent at supermarkets. If it did work in the way you said, then yes, you’d undoubtedly get parents who wouldn’t care enough to take them along. In those cases the schools would have a list of non collections and would be making welfare checks and passing the names on to social services who would no doubt already have the families on their radar. There would be plenty of caring but poor parents who would take them along though and be very grateful for it. There would also be caring and poor parents who couldn’t take them along despite needing and wanting the food. Our school was doing packed lunches at first during lockdown and realised on the first day that collection wouldn’t work, not because the parents didn’t care but because the kids would have had to pay to get a bus to school, at a time when public transport wasn’t a good idea and school buses weren’t running, to get a packed lunch - it just didn’t make sense. They then dropped them off for a few days until they arranged their own voucher system. The Government then finally pulled their fingers out and set one up weeks later.
It's a good job the local businesses are looking after local people, because the Government aren't. Oh, but they can have a bloody whacking great pay rise, lack of integrity and greedy the lot of them
Yeah. It’s a standard offer. Folk who can’t afford to feed their kids shouldn’t be in a pub in the first place. Got to get priorities right. There’s some genuine folk in town who can’t afford to feed their families properly - despite their best efforts. Sadly, there’s also folk who can afford to feed the kids, but choose to spend the cash elsewhere. Both types need help - but different kinds of help, if that makes sense.