{"id":688582,"date":"2026-07-13T02:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:52:26","slug":"families-welcome-new-vat-cut-scheme-to-help-with-holiday-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688582\/","title":{"rendered":"Families welcome new VAT-cut scheme to help with holiday costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bruce Leeke, chief executive of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ormiston.org\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ormiston Families, external<\/a>, an Ipswich-based charity, says the VAT scheme is helpful, but will not solve the problems faced by families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The cost-of-living crisis hasn&#8217;t gone away,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has lots of different impacts on people&#8217;s mental health, [and] obviously if you are anxious about your finances, that anxiety gets passed on to family members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When the summer comes, there is much more care needed for children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He wants to see more investment by the government on long-term help for families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our recommendation would be to invest in early intervention,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour MP for Southend West and Leigh, David Burton-Sampson, says the government is already providing 30 hours of free childcare a week for children before they go to school, but concedes that the issue may need to be looked at again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it is very difficult,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a finite amount of finance and we&#8217;re trying to target that finance on the ways that will make the biggest difference to people&#8217;s lives.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Suffolk? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Leeke, chief executive of Ormiston Families, external, an Ipswich-based charity, says the VAT scheme is helpful, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}