Decision Maker: Executive Member for Education, Learning & Skills
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To seek approval to accept the annual grant
from the Department for Education offered to the Council for the
purpose of providing a county wide offer of Holiday Activities and
Food for free school meal eligible children for a minimum of 4
hours per day for 4 days over the Easter school holidays; a minimum
of 4 hours per day for 16 days over the Summer school holidays and
a minimum of 4 hours per day for 4 days over the Christmas school
holidays
The Executive Member has approved the
acceptance a grant in the sum of £1,420,280 from the
Department for Education to deliver the national Holiday Activities
& Food Programme (HAF) for North Yorkshire in
2025/26.
The programme is fully funded and offers
valued free to access activities and food to children
and families on low incomes when free school meals are not
available. Without the grant
these activities would not be available.
Publication date: 25/03/2025
Date of decision: 25/03/2025
Effective from: 02/04/2025
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