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£2 million boost for Cumbria’s school dinners

by CWH
15 December 2022
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Cumbria’s schools will get a £2 million boost to make sure they can support pupils and their families during the cost of living crisis.

The county council’s cabinet agreed today to give the education sector the extra cash.

It takes the council’s spend supporting people through the cost of living crisis to more than £5m in the last 12 months, it said.

The fund will include:

  • A £1.5m food provision grant programme for all schools – Grants could be used to cover the costs where a child’s lunch account is in deficit, develop breakfast provision and homework clubs, support costs for food tech and any other measures the schools deem necessary to ensure that their pupils are able to access hot food.
  • The £1.5m includes a dedicated £50,000 to enable schools to set up breakfast clubs or help schools currently running breakfast clubs to have access to good food and resource additional staff/volunteer capacity.
  • £500,000 to fund the holiday food programme in Easter 2023. This will ensure the two new unitary councils of Cumbria, Cumberland Council and Westmorland & Furness Council, can continue to provide free school meal vouchers to children during the Easter holidays.

The decision was taken in response to a motion proposed by Councillor Karen Lockney at the meeting of full council in September, which asked for a task group to be convened to look at how the council could ensure that no child goes hungry as the ongoing cost-of-living crisis impacts on families.

The group heard from expert witnesses, including local headteachers, and made several recommendations, including providing direct support to schools.

Cumbria County Council’s cabinet member for communities and public health, Deborah Earl, said: “I’m delighted we’ve been able to provide this additional funding for schools. So many families are facing real hardship and schools are at the frontline of responding to this.

“This money can be used flexibly by schools depending on their circumstances, for example it could allow them to run breakfast clubs or to subsidise the cost of school meals to ensure portion sizes aren’t reduced because of the increasing cost of ingredients and energy. The key thing is that they can do what works for their pupils.

“However, that we are having to do this is genuinely quite shocking. We shouldn’t be in the position of having to offer schools emergency funding just to ensure pupils don’t go hungry. The Government must respond to the huge impact that rising costs are having on families and public services like schools.”

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