Fill the Holiday Gap 2020

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Cornwall Council’s Wellbeing and Public Health Team will be going out to tender in 2019 for applications for the 2020 Filling the Holiday Gap funding scheme to provide free enrichment activities and healthy food aimed at children eligible for free school meals during the school summer holidays throughout Cornwall. A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger found that children were returning to school in a worse educational, health and developmental state than that in which they had left in the summer. During the summer holidays when free school meal provision is unavailable many families have to make difficult choices to afford the extra £30 to £40 per week to ensure their children can have a balanced diet. Combine this with an estimated £120 for childcare and for many children in Cornwall the summer holidays are the opposite of why families come to our county at this time. Please review and respond to the attached advert by 12 noon October 31st 2019 should you wish to attend. Keywords: Holiday, Meals, Children, Disadvantaged, Activities, School