How to get free £50 food vouchers for supermarkets over Easter

FAMILIES can get help feeding their kids during the Easter school holiday break.

Free food vouchers are being dished out to hard-up Brits and they can be used for supermarket shops.

The support comes from local councils and is designed to help cover the cost of feeding kids when they are not getting free school meals.

For instance in West Sussex, parents are being given a £50 voucher per child.

The council said it is an increased amount to help families facing rising food and energy bills.

And in Kirklees residents can get £30 per child to spend on food if they are normally eligible for free school meals.

What help is available and how you get it will depend on where you live.

Each council will have a different way of running the scheme.

Vouchers can usually be used at most supermarkets, including places like Asda, Tesco and Lidl, but check the terms to see where they can be spent.

But there are some areas where parents are not being offered the extra support this Easter break.

In Norwich the free school meal voucher scheme has been scrapped, but there is other support for struggling families through its welfare assistance scheme.

Funding for vouchers for those who get free school meals was given out by the government during the Coronavirus pandemic.

But it is now up to local authorities whether they continue offering the help.

Some areas are offering the vouchers through the Household Support Fund.

That's a £500m pot of cash which local councils can give out to anyone struggling to get by.

Those getting free school meals or not could also get help from this fund.

You can check what's available near you by checking with your local council - .