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As Elaine Smith said, a growing number of people and families are reliant on food banks and councils are setting up summer food schemes to ensure that kids do not starve during the summer.
What are the implications if the funding stream is withdrawn? In the Prime Minister’s Jodrell Bank speech, she was very clear that it is the wish of the UK Government to remain part of the European funding stream.
However, if councils happen to find, at the end of the year, that they have a few quid in the bank that they did not expect to have and they put that money into reserves, that is not so good—our view would be that presumably that money was due to be spent on something in the year.
The commissioner’s office has been fully engaged in the process to date, which enabled us to go live with the advert for the chair appointment on 25 April.