There are so many different aspects of this pandemic that is placing pressure on households, business and services. A huge concern for us, as school caterers and advocates for equal access to good food, is the access to healthy food and the challenges that Covid-19 creates. The Free School Meal scheme, in ordinary times, allows for many children to access a healthy, hot meals that they otherwise may not be able to access. Many families struggle to afford food. For many, this can means no hot meal, at all. Or parents skipping meals to ensure that their children remain fed. We already know that this risks present itself more so in the school holidays, when the scheme is not running. This happens, up and down the country, and a pandemic and the financial crisis that looms does little to prevent this very real risk from increasing.