Bexley council provides supermarket voucher scheme for families over the holidays

Bexley council is helping families with food vouchers over the school holidays.

Bexley will provide supermarket vouchers to families whose children receive non-universal free school meals over the coming Easter holidays and May half-term break. 

Each qualifying child in the family will receive vouchers worth £45.

Nearly 8,000 pupils will benefit from the vouchers that can be exchanged at a number of high street supermarkets.  

The councils support comes as part of its Household Support Fund, using funding from the government.  

The Council is also delivering the Holiday Activities and Food programme funded by the Department for Education.

Between April 3 and April 14, children and young people who receive benefits-related free school meals and attend a school in Bexley will be able to attend up to four days at different holiday schemes across the borough.

Children and young people also receive a free balanced meal as part of their day. 

Bexley cabinet member for education, councillor Richard Diment said: “Many families are feeling the effects of the rising cost of living. 

“The school holidays can be a particularly expensive time and it is because of this that we have chosen to use the Household Support Fund to help with supermarket bills in this way.”

Find out more at www.bexley.gov.uk/holiday-activities-food-programme

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