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Graham, P. L., Crilley, E., Stretesky, P. B., Long, M. A., Palmer, K. J., Steinbock, E., & Defeyter, M. A. (2016). School Holiday Food Provision in the UK: A Qualitative Investigation of Needs, Benefits, and Potential for Development. Frontiers in Public Health, 4, Article 172.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00172

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• TITLE: Implementing Holiday Provision Programmes: A Qualitative Investigation of the Experiences of Senior Stakeholders

  AUTHORS: Emily Mann, Clara Widdison, Margaret Anne Defeyter

  KEYWORDS: School Holidays, Holiday Provision, Holiday Clubs, Food Insecurity, Child

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.8 No.7, July 27, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Holiday provision is a grassroots response to support low-income families during the school holidays with the provision of free food and activities. This qualitative study investigates the views of senior stakeholders (N = 15) who are responsible for facilitating or implementing programmes of holiday provision to determine the need for holiday provision, examples of best practice for delivering programmes of holiday provision and barriers for effective delivery. The findings identified a need for holiday provision as a result of cuts to welfare provision and local authority services which have increased pressures on household budgets. Senior stakeholders advocated a collaborative and flexible model of holiday provision and identified the need to utilize and develop existing community assets to deliver this provision, Yet, senior stakeholders acknowledged multiple barriers of delivery related to cost, sustainability and organizational capacity and, in the absence of a strategic response and sustained funding by national, regional and local governments, there are questions of whether this type of approach truly addresses and targets all of the most vulnerable in society.