The Department for Education has announced that the pilot Holiday Activity Fund will be extended to cover Easter, Summer and Christmas 2021.
On the news, Fiona Bruce said ‘Whilst in the short term financial help is needed this Christmas - and that as I have said is right - longer term combining this with a wide roll out of the HAF programme in future school holidays is the way to also help children and their families - or direct them to help - with a way out of the fundamental problems which are so often the root cause of their challenges - whether addiction , joblessesness , relationship difficulties , or debt . The HAF programme effectively developed provides wrap around help for a whole family and I look forward to supporting its development here.’
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