Charities say families seeking support over the holiday period face a postcode lottery.
All councils are providing the HAF scheme, which some have chosen to bolster with funding from other grants and budgets such as the HSF.One such council is Blackburn with Darwen, which provides 3,000 places on its activities and food scheme through partners such as Blackburn Rovers Community Trust and the children and families charity Spring North.
Although she said the HAF scheme proved a good solution for them, she believes the ideal scheme would maintain the free school meal vouchers as a back-up."Children have anxieties about being around adults. Something does need to be in place for children who don't participate in this.
Cornwall Council is offering an £80 payment to families on free school meals over Christmas, but it isOther councils such as Derbyshire are intentionally waiting to provide vouchers due to data suggesting income is at its lowest in January.
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