From today (22 April), free breakfast clubs will open in 750 primary schools across England providing 30 minutes of childcare a day, as part of the Government’s plan to tackle child poverty, as well as improve children’s educational attainment.
The breakfast club initiative is taking places alongside the wider work of the Child Poverty Taskforce, which is expected to report in June.
According to ministers, 67,000 of the 180,000 pupils set to benefit come from the most disadvantaged areas of England.
The Department for Education said that the breakfast clubs could mean parents will be able to save up to 95 extra hours and £450 a year if their child went every day.
It said that the rollout of school breakfast clubs delivers on the government’s manifesto promise to ensure state schools offer free breakfast clubs to all pupils, while supporting its Plan for Change to ensure tens of thousands more children start school ready to learn.
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