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activists threatened a lawsuit against the government, not the free school meal vouchers during the summer.

Usually children only get free meals from school during the semester.

However, the eligible students will receive food vouchers over Easter when the country came up with the Covid crisis.

The Department For Education said the program will not continue in the summer holidays, but activists say children in vulnerable families are starving.

you have written to bring The Department of Education's threat of a judicial review of the decision.

The Letter was obtained from the food charity and The Good Law Centre, led by the combative lawyer, Jolyon Maugham .

Kath Dalmeny of Sustain, said: "I try hours and hours and hours of my time to Zoom-meetings, phone calls,,, this is a Problem noticed by all other means. That didn't work and so we must take the people seriously. "

But has not begun any legal challenge, you still have an appointment with the court, or the means to complete the case, and many failed attempted for a judicial review.

The voucher System has cost More Than £129 in England and is Worth £15 Per week for each eligible child.

A woman, Daisy, who has Two Children , said the amount and the standard of food, to cut you have eaten, without the vouchers. "Are these five to ten pounds Per week is a great thing," she told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 .

mother-of-four Aimee Smith said she relied on The Money . If the funds have only short-run in The Past , said: "I just had to give you, plain noodles, if we had, nothing else. "

the Minister respond to the fears that children have meals at school, could starve

you said you often went without food or had to make sure a piece of toast that there is enough left for their children. "This is what we call a dinner for The Night ," She Said . "Not to eat of the location, it is not a nice thought, is it?"

In a statement, a Department For Education spokesman said the schools more open, the government expects you to have food packages available for children entitled to free school meals, but still not in the class room.

"Where this is not possible, said the schools continue to provide vouchers for eligible students," the speaker is. "The National voucher System will not run during the summer holidays. "

In Wales, families free school have promised meals will be provided to open up the schools again, or until The End of August .

coronavirus lockdown measures, coronavirus pandemic, child poverty, poverty

Source of news: bbc.com