In November, the government announced that the Holiday Activities and Food programme will expand in 2021. More information is available on the new winter package to provide further support for children and families. Disadvantaged children across England are being offered free healthy meals and enriching activities over the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays. Local authorities will receive funding to coordinate the delivery of the programme. Some may co-ordinate it themselves, and others may choose to work with another organisation to co-ordinate provision on their behalf. The programme will make free places available to children who are eligible for free school meals for a minimum of 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, 6 weeks a year. This would cover 4 weeks in the summer, and a week’s worth of provision in each of the Easter and Christmas holidays. Funding to local authorities will reflect the participation rate among eligible children, based on what we have seen in the pilot stage of this programme. More information on the holiday activities and food programme is available.