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The Healthy Start Scheme prescribes food vouchers to low income households with young children. With vouchers, people can buy fresh fruit and vegetables, plain frozen fruit and vegetables, milk and infant formula milk.6The UK Healthy Start Scheme. (2014).
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On the second question, some UK legislation is giving SG concern, so Scottish officials and UK officials working together to see what implications there are.
I think that is currently due in the autumn, but, again, the timing will depend on what the UK Government says and on its timings with regard to capital investment.
If we work together in tandem, we can do great things, even in difficult times. It is not all about the level of funding; it is about political will as well."
Evidence from organisations in the third sector and beyond have shown that that is very real, especially at the time of a cost of living crisis, with the legacy of Covid and 10 years of austerity policies across the UK.