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DELEGATES to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham today were met with billboards calling on the Prime Minister to extend free school meals.
The initiative by the National Education Union (NEU) follows last month’s open letter Free School Meals for All launched by the union’s No Child Left Behind campaign.
NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said: “Too many families with young children are being pulled into poverty.
“Last year around 2.6 million children in the UK lived in households that went short of food — an increase of 27 per cent since before the Covid pandemic.
“When children are hungry, they can’t learn. It’s hard for them to concentrate and harder for them to reach their potential. Free school meals for all would mean every child can learn and succeed.”
Scottish and Welsh governments have pledged to extend free school meals to all primary school children, but in England free meals are withdrawn after year two.
