Insight: Breakfast clubs - Rise and shine

A charity-run breakfast club is transforming the learning experience in schools for children and teachers. The programme provides more than 1,000 breakfasts a day to children throughout London. Since 2001, the Magic Breakfast Programme has been delivering breakfasts to give children a healthy start to the day. Carmel McConnell came up with the idea while interviewing headteachers in Hackney. She was shocked to discover that teachers were giving food to children who were too hungry to learn. Carmel explains, 'I was running a management consultancy at the...