LABOUR is calling for a “transformation” in family support during the lockdown, as more than a million children will face a “postcode lottery” in free school meals provision this week.

Children who are learning at home during the coronavirus pandemic will be on half-term break from Monday until Friday.

Despite a widespread campaign for Tory ministers to provide free school meals to more than 1.4 million children over this half-term, they have decided not to.