Sandwell’s four Labour MPs have called on Reform-led Sandwell Council to abandon proposals to remove funding for free school meal holiday vouchers.
The vouchers provide direct, practical support to low-income families during the school holidays, when children no longer receive their usual free school meal during the day.
For many families across Sandwell, this support can be the difference between getting through the week and being pushed further into hardship.
Antonia Bance, MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley, Sarah Coombes, MP for West Bromwich, Alex Ballinger, MP for Halesowen, and Gurinder Singh Josan CBE, MP for Smethwick, have written to Sandwell Council Leader Councillor Ray Nock, urging him and his Cabinet colleagues to reconsider before the Cabinet meeting on 15 July.
Antonia Bance MP said: “Children don’t stop needing lunch when term ends. For families already struggling to get by, holiday food vouchers are practical support at a time when household budgets are under real pressure.
“Reform councillors promised to stand up for local people and help with the cost of living. Taking this support away would make life harder for the very families they claimed they would help.
“The Leader of the Council and his Cabinet must do the right thing and drop this proposal.”
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