Around 500,000 more children to receive free breakfast as scheme expanded
As the government plan expands, approximately 500,000 children will receive a free breakfast.
Bridget Phillipson announced that approximately 2,000 primary schools throughout England will participate in the breakfast club program with a movement supported by 80 million £ and will save up to £ 450 at child care costs each year.
Training Secretary, workers’ delegates and activists announced the plan to go to Liverpool for the annual conference that started this weekend this weekend.
“The beginning of the national market of free breakfast clubs will be a historical change in the daily routines of working families, and this workers’ government is another example of the promises of the British people in their promises to provide a change,” he said.
“This is to choose a way to renew towards a more fair country, to destroy the obstacles to the opportunity and to ensure that every child is ready for school.”
Phillipson aims to expand the free breakfast clubs plan to more children, to mak facilitate the lives of working parents and offer all children the best start of life ”.
The government began to try free breakfast clubs in the early 2025 with the first plan for approximately 180,000 students released in 750 primer after Easter in the last school year.
In the 2024 manifesto, the worker promised to support families with children by offering free breakfast clubs in each primary school ”.
NAHT Secretary General Paul Whiteman (National Chief Teachers’ Association) welcomed the movement, but called on the government to think of “concerns about financing, personnel and field in school buildings”.
He said: uz We welcome the principle of free breakfast clubs available in schools.
“A good breakfast helps children focus on their learning and has great benefits for their health and welfare.
“However, it is really important that feedback from the government’s first hearing is considered as part of this presentation.”
