Holiday help

Healthy Holiday Voucher Scheme

More than 1,000 Salford families will get help to feed their children over the school summer holidays.

Salford City Council is relaunching its healthy holiday voucher scheme for families where children are eligible for or normally receive free school meals.

Families can apply for shopping vouchers worth £30 per child to help towards the cost of extra food over the school summer holidays. The shopping vouchers are enough to provide a daily lunch of sandwiches, soup and fruit for children.

The scheme ran for the first time last year, as part of a range of holiday activities which also included free healthy lunches. Last year over 1,600 families applied for the vouchers alone.

The initiative is being run under the Salford Assist scheme which helps people in crisis. Anyone who applies can also ask for further help from debt advice to benefit checks to make sure they are receiving all the money they are entitled to.

To apply please see www.salford.gov.uk/summervouchers