Food, glorious food.

As it's the start of the six-week summer holiday, here's something I have never understood - if it is Government policy that children whose parents are in receipt of certain benefits should get a free meal every school day, then this is presumably done on the basis that these children are deemed by the Government to need the nutritional benefits of such meals, and it is accepted that, for whatever reason, their parents may not be in a position to provide it.  So what about school holidays? What about weekends?   What about other days when, for whatever reason, the school is closed?  The need, if in fact it exists, does not stop because the school is shut.  Logic suggests that either such a meal should be provided for them every day or not at all.