The Department of Education has announced that they are to scrap the School Holiday Food Grant (SHFG) alongside the Engage and Healthy Happy Minds programmes.
Under the Holiday Hunger Grant scheme, parents in receipt of free school meals received a payment of £27 per child each fortnight to assist with food costs during school holidays.
The payments had been in place since July 2020 but a long term plan to continue the payments to 2025 had not been agreed before the Executive collapsed last year.
