Kids from low-income families can benefit from free breakfast clubs, the government has announced.
A whopping £24million has been invested into getting free breakfasts for thousands of children for the next two academic years.
The new National School Breakfast Programme will deliver breakfast food items to around 2,500 schools from July 2021 to July 2023.
And it’ll be thousands of children, especially those in disadvantaged areas, who will benefit from the help.
Schools will have to apply to the Department for Education in order to set up a breakfast club, which can be done online.
But they will have to start footing the bill for 25% of the cost of supplying and delivering the breakfast in nine months time.
Schools will receive further guidance on how to roll out the programme and whether they will be eligible for the scheme.
And parents can ask schools to set up a breakfast club, even if they haven’t signed up to the help.
Once a breakfast club has been set up, all kids need to do is turn up as there’s no need to apply.
Children and families minister Vicky Ford encourages all eligible schools to sign up.
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She said: “Family Action will lead this delivery in schools, backed by our £24million investment, meaning hundreds of thousands of children can benefit from breakfast clubs over the next two years.”
It comes as thousands of Brits have been relying on free school meals to feed their children.
Around 200,000 UK kids skipped meals during the first lockdown because they didn’t have enough food, campaign group Food Foundation found.
The government rolled out food packages for kids and Prime Minister Boris Johnson allowed Brits to sign up to schemes after a national uproar spurred on by Manchester star Marcus Rashford.