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Kids ‘going hungry’ during holidays
Poorer children ‘missing out’ on vital meals over the summer

POOR kids who get their only meal of the day at school are going hungry during holidays, Labour MP Ruth Smeeth warned yesterday.

The Stoke-on-Trent North MP raised the alarm over the “hidden horror of holiday hunger” at a debate in Parliament.

She told MPs of heartbreaking cases of hunger from schools in her constituency where over half of pupils receive free meals.

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