The Department of Education (Education_NI) cannot yet confirm whether 'holiday hunger' payments can be made during the 2023 Easter break.
BBC News NI education correspondent
The £27 per fortnight payments help the families of ober 96,000 children with the cost of meals during the holidays.Meanwhile, a union representing many NI principals is to refuse to make staff redundant to save money. At a cost of about £22m a year, the payments have been made fortnightly to families during school holidays since 2020, but a long-term plan to continue them until 2025 was not agreed before the executive collapsed in 2022.
When asked by BBC News NI whether the payments would be made at Easter, the department said that it was "facing very significant budgetary pressures".It added a decision and an announcement on the school holiday food grant scheme would be "made once 2023/24 budgets are known".
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