Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Children in Care
Commons · Question 19891 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Kerry McCarthy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional cost to the public purse of expanding the automatic eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to include all care-experienced children, incl
Answer
Answered by Paul Waugh, 8 Sep 2026
The government recognises that care-experienced children, including children who are looked after, living in kinship care or adopted, can face additional challenges.The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, backed by over £600 million of funding fo...