North Yorkshire children to benefit from holiday and food scheme
She added it would offer "valued, free-to-access activities and food to children and families on low incomes when free school meals are not available".The scheme, known as FEAST in North Yorkshire, is delivered as a partnership between the council and local community providers and gives free places to all free school meal-eligible children, up to the age of 16.The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the grant was due to be formally accepted at a meeting of senior councillors and officers from the children and young people's service, with FEAST vouchers then sent to eligible families by email or text.Following successful pilots between 2018 and 2020 in 2021, the government announced a funding settlement of more than £200m each year for the programme across the UK.
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