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This defies belief.
The 🇬🇧 UK government's educational authorities have just announced that free meal coverage for kids🧒🏾 from low income families in England 🏴 won't continue over the February half-term break.
Instead some other winter grant scheme may kick in.
This defies belief.
The 🇬🇧 UK government's educational authorities have just announced that free meal coverage for kids🧒🏾 from low income families in England 🏴 won't continue over the February half-term break.
Instead some other winter grant scheme may kick in.
2/3 I'm appalled. The government has tried this before, making last minute u-turns -- at significant cost to families living on very low incomes and school staff -- after outcry.
Children have a #righttofood under intl human rights law. Like they have a #rightoteducation.
Children have a #righttofood under intl human rights law. Like they have a #rightoteducation.
3/3 It's so miserly and callous.
Every time you think finally a lesson about basic rights has been learned during the pandemic, you realize those making decision have learned: next to nothing.
And that's what some kids will be left with to eat in February: next to nothing.
Every time you think finally a lesson about basic rights has been learned during the pandemic, you realize those making decision have learned: next to nothing.
And that's what some kids will be left with to eat in February: next to nothing.
