DESC says it's due to 'positive progress' in Covid recovery
Food vouchers will not be provided to children over TT week or the summer holidays.
The Department of Education, Sport and Culture says it has no plans to repeat last year's additional support for struggling families.
That decision was revealed in Tynwald this week by department member Ann Corlett who claimed it was because of the 'positive progress' made in recovering from the pandemic:
However Ramsey MHK Lawrie Hooper told her he believed government should be doing more:
Mrs Corlett told the court it was a wider issue which government as a whole needed to address:
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