{"id":18044,"date":"2025-06-06T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/?p=18044"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:41:50","slug":"welcoming-the-free-school-meals-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/news\/welcoming-the-free-school-meals-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the free school meals expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Families raising disabled children are more likely to be in poverty due to a round-the-clock caring load and over £1000 in extra costs every month, including for food, so this will make big difference to household budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our recent Cost of Caring report<\/a> shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n