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Aurora T
19 July 2021
Today I discovered the provision for summer clubs is instead of the free school meal holiday voucher scheme. Fine when these clubs are close-by...
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🍞 Food / food banks
David P
27 July 2021
I think that would be really hard, especially the moon with TVs and everything, even though we're now out of lockdown things don't feel like they changed and I think it's really nice that we've got people, you know, footballers that are back in our children and the government backing down and didn't s the voucher provision, which is a great help to our families...
🌦 Politics & stigma
🍞 Food / food banks
Lois N
22 July 2021
My son is on free School meals although he often prefers sandwiches or a packed lunch had to take to school. But for us in terms of holidays, in when we've been on lockdown, the free school meal vouchers, make a big difference and I know that at school if he wants to have a school meal then he can do and there's no issue with that...
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Nellie K
22 July 2021
Free school meals are a huge help for us. In particular the extended provision over the holidays has been very helpful...
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Lois N
17 February 2021
I'm for me, the 20 lbs uplift per week has made a difference to my shopping to what products I can purchase. That's a big deal also to mitigating The increased cost of electricity of the heating all of those kind of things are really relevant as well...
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🍞 Food / food banks
Lois N
10 February 2021
One of the questions on the notice board and big question of the week was I think food Parcels or food vouchers. I consider myself extremely lucky although I thought for a long time to get my son into a specialist provision because he has additional needs but it's taken a very long time in a big fight to get there...
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Dorothy T
09 February 2021
We haven't had any problems and getting tested or self isolated and I drive so that's quite good. I know it would be quite a struggle if he can't drive near I'd like to use public transport how you would get to the testing center, but my son had tested positive and we had the isolate again and for another two weeks and we'd previously isolated three times and it is just so lonely and you feel just so dependent on other people and you don't want to ask for too much, you know, you usually end up to the shop if you forget to get milk or You forget to get bread or something, but you don't want to be having to ask people especially a few times a week...
🍞 Food / food banks
😷 Covid-19
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
Dorothy T
09 February 2021
I haven't received any food Fighters, but I have received free skill move mail payments from the government, but they were always paid on a rear so they repaired three weeks behind so it was bit of a struggle to make sure that there was enough food in the kids weren't going hungry all the time, but we just had to really take their belts and it's hard enough considering it's only after Christmas...
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Florrie N
27 July 2021
My daughter is now 21 and at University but when she was at school , she got free school meals. They were a lifeline and we really struggled in the school holidays without them...
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Erik N
22 July 2021
I don't get free school meal. It will help me to feed my children during summer holidays if I get...
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💸 Money + debt
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