{"id":45339,"date":"2023-07-16T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/16\/more-spending-challenges-to-come-warns-mark-drakeford\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T13:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T13:32:56","slug":"more-spending-challenges-to-come-warns-mark-drakeford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=45339","title":{"rendered":"More spending challenges to come, warns Mark Drakeford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Asked if this was the best use of the government\u2019s limited budget, or whether cash could instead be targeted towards poorer children including free meals over the summer holidays, Mr Drakeford said a universal approach was important to stop children facing &#8220;stigma and shame&#8221; in school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m001p026\/politics-wales-16072023\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC Politics Wales programme<\/a>: &#8220;In the long run it will do such an important job in bringing those young people in our primary schools to have a healthy diet, to socialise with one another, and to do all of that [while] removing that sense of stigma and shame that&#8217;s prevented young people in Wales in the past from accessing that help that&#8217;s available to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;Of course, we wish we had \u00a315m sitting spare to go on doing what we\u2019ve been able to do during the emergency years of Covid. We don\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cndky7r2l4ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Asked if this was the best use of the government\u2019s limited budget, or whether cash could instead be targeted towards poorer children including free meals over the summer holidays, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}