Free breakfasts go further

A charity-run breakfast club programme working with extended schools in London and providing more than 1,000 breakfasts a day is calling for local authorities to help roll out the scheme to other parts of the country. The Magic Breakfast programme delivers food to 26 schools in London and plans to expand to support 45 schools by the end of the year. Founder Carmel McConnell started the programme in 2001 after she visited schools in Hackney as part of a research project and found that teachers were bringing in food for children who were arriving too hungry to learn. The charity...