Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Matt Hancock caves in over vitamins for poor children
A family took legal action after they were denied a voucher due to their immigration status.
www.bbc.co.uk
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has caved in to a legal action over providing vitamins and milk to some of the UK's poorest children.
Lawyers for a family denied weekly vouchers worth £4.25 had challenged the policy as discriminatory.
They said the ban unfairly affected ethnic minority children whose parents were not fully settled in the UK.
The challenge concerned the "Healthy Start" scheme supplying milk, vitamins and vegetables in England and Wales.
It explicitly aims to improve the diets of babies and toddlers in the poorest families in England in Wales - and so reduce the likelihood of lifelong chronic bad health.
It seems that the only way to make the tories behave like civilised people is to get a Judge to tell them.
The dumbest thing is that the scheme will actually save the taxpayer money in the longer term.
Anyway, let's chalk another one up to the good guys and wonder why these tory cockroaches waste public funds on these court cases.