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Education
Free school meals criteria ‘always under review’, minister says
The criteria for who qualifies for free school meals is “always under review”, the education minister has said. Gillian Keegan…
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‘You always want the next generation to have a better life than we did’
Growing up in Middlesbrough, Louise Powell lived below the poverty line. Now a successful writer, director and filmmaker, with her…
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Religious leaders back our campaign to urgently extend free school meals
Religious leaders have backed The Independent‘s call for free school meals to be extended to more children living in poverty…
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Expand free school meals to combat ‘devastating’ cost of living impact, health experts urge
The availability of free school meals has to be extended to all children in households on universal credit to combat…
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‘Our lives would be a complete disaster without free school meals’
Chinua had worked and earned a decent salary her entire marriage and her children had never been on free school…
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Health
Children’s health chief calls for free school meals for all to end ‘disturbing’ food poverty
The government must offer all children free school meals to address the country’s “profoundly disturbing” food poverty rates, the NHS’…
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‘Liz Truss must act’: Politicians from all parties back our campaign to expand free school meals
Top politicians from all parties have backed The Independent’s Feed the Future campaign to extend free school meals to all…
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New Tory education minister attacked free school meals as ‘nationalising children’
Boris Johnson’s new education minister argued against free school meals and said he did not believe families could not afford…
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Free school meals: The families ‘training’ the way they eat so their children won’t go hungry
Faith Agnwet says she has learned to “train the way” she eats in school holidays. By managing to eat less,…
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