If £30 per head was allocated, someone is taking food straight from the mouths of children.
https://twitter.com/RoadsideMum/status/1348646428084760576
Children are hungry. ALL THE TIME. From the days of constant breastfeeding demands which can drive you literally mad and make you feel almost claustrophobic by it, to when they start eating solids and from then on your weekly food budget doubles.
My two can't go half an hour without asking for snacks or raiding the fridge. And usually it's not because they're looking for crisps or biscuits. They're more than happy to satisfy their hunger with a piece of fruit or toast or some yoghurt. But it is constant.
Since the pandemic, between trying to coax them to do schoolwork, all I do is prepare food & clear plates away. They get tired, cranky & lethargic if they don't eat. My daughter used to wake in the night asking for food and she couldn't go back to sleep without eating something.
Mine are 7 and 4 and their little bodies are constantly growing and strengthening and their minds are sharpening, and that couldn't happen without food. They are lucky that they have never gone without plenty of nutritious food but thousands of kids out there do.
And more often than not, their parents will have done everthing they can to provide for them, but when they can't, surely, it is down to the Governement to step in and help. Without question.
If, and I'm careful to highlight that these are allegations currently, but if a contractor has been given a set amount to spend per head on free meals for kids and they've palmed them off with as little of the cheapest produce they can find before pocketing a nice profit, then
they should face the full force of the law and the UK Government should be held accountable for failing to quality check contractors' work and never be allowed to recover from it. But we all know that won't happen.
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