Written question WQ97064
- Asked by
- Jenny RathboneLabour
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Education
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 9 days
Question
How many school holiday enrichment programme places have been funded in each local authority in each of the last three years?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Education
The ‘Food and Fun’ School Holiday Enrichment Programme (SHEP) is a school-based scheme that provides healthy meals, food and nutrition education, physical activity and enrichment sessions to learners in areas of socio-economic disadvantage for a minimum of 12 days during the school summer holidays. The programme is managed by the Welsh Local Government Association.
Since its establishment in 2015, 833,520 places have been funded to support families over the summer holidays.
I am pleased that, in line with the Programme for Government commitment to “build on” programme, the total number of places the Welsh Government has funded across Wales has increased, each year, over the last three years. A full breakdown of places by local authority is set out below.
Council
2023
2024
2025
Blaenau Gwent
2,640
3,360
5,040
Bridgend
1,920
2,880
1,920
Caerphilly
4,320
7,680
7,800
Cardiff
22,240
20,640
19,680
Carmarthenshire
2,880
3,840
5,280
Ceredigion
480
2,880
2,880
Conwy
1,440
5,280
6,000
Denbighshire
7,680
9,360
10,320
Flintshire
6,720
5,280
5,520
Gwynedd
1,920
1,920
4,800
Isle of Anglesey
2,400
3,360
5,280
Merthyr Tydfil
9,840
12,000
12,240
Monmouthshire
7,680
9,600
9,600
Neath Port Talbot
13,440
15,840
22,560
Newport
3,840
6,400
6,960
Pembrokeshire
3,600
4,320
6,480
Powys
3,600
4,800
5,760
Rhondda Cynon Taf
7,680
5,760
7,440
Swansea
3,960
3,840
3,360
Torfaen
30,780
34,580
37,240
Vale of Glamorgan
2,640
3,360
5,280
Wrexham
3,600
5,040
4,320
Totals
145,300
172,020
195,760