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School meals

June 2023

  • Pupils in a classroom raise their hands as a teacher points to writing on a whiteboard

    Record numbers of teachers in England quitting profession, figures show

  • Children eating at school

    Our unequal earth
    ‘None of the Muslim kids can eat’: Illinois to provide halal and kosher meals to schoolkids

May 2023

  • A child using magnetic letters in an early years childcare setting

    Sure Start director says childcare reform is for UK economy not children

  • School canteen

    School caterers in England and Wales ‘facing a precipice’ as costs rise

  • The Universal School Meals Program Act would restore a federal programme that saw about 30 million kids a day getting free meals.

    Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders to introduce free school meals legislation

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement

    Sending child to state secondary school costs UK families £39 a week, study says

  • ‘Cost of eating’ crisis: price of school lunches up by a third in parts of England

  • A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: we planned a quiet retirement – but ended up fighting food poverty

April 2023

  • A school canteen

    Starmer under pressure to commit to universal free school meals in England

    Exclusive: National Education Union includes call in submission to forum that will determine Labour’s general election manifesto

March 2023

  • School meal on a tray

    MPs call on Jeremy Hunt to extend free school meals to all primary pupils

  • Plans to serve primary schoolchildren free lunches are already being rolled out in London, Wales and Scotland.

    Number of UK children in food poverty nearly doubles in a year to 4m

February 2023

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school, blurred movement

    England’s poorer pupils face ‘geographic exclusion’ from top state schools – study

  • Pupils at King Edward VI high school for girls in Birmingham

    Poorer pupils still missing out on grammar school places in England

  • A school canteen chef serves children during their lunch break

    London to offer free school meals to all primary pupils for a year

  • School children at a lunch counter

    Public health groups urge Rishi Sunak to widen free school meals programme

January 2023

  • Pupils in a playground.

    Nearly 1,000 police officers operating in UK schools, figures show

    Analysis shows police more likely to be in schools with higher numbers of pupils of colour and those eligible for free meals

December 2022

  • Polly Toynbee

    Osborne the great child impoverisher is backing free school meals. Has he forgotten who he is?

    Polly Toynbee
  • Primary school children eating

    Ministers criticised as 200,000 eligible children in England miss out on free school meals

  • The television chef highlighted the issue as he was guest-editing BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday.

    Jamie Oliver calls for expansion of free school meals in England

  • A lunch tray in a school canteen.

    School leaders report rise in pupils not on free meals going hungry

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