Formal legal action has been launched over the Government’s failure to confirm free school meals over the summer. Lawyers have now started the formal process of issuing judicial review proceedings after the Government refused to say whether it would keep providing food vouchers for children entitled to free school meals in England over the summer.
More than 1.3 million children in England rely on free school meals in term time - leading to the introduction of £15 a week vouchers to cover the cost of feeding them an extra meal while schools were closed.
But, with the summer holidays fast approaching, many schools still closed and millions furloughed or struggling to find work while much of the economy is shut down, there is uncertainty
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