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    Government set to provide free school meals to half a million more children from 2026 – Politics UK

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    1. Dr-Yahood on

      Pleased Labour is not imposing unnecessary austerity on the children’s free school meals at least

      A much better investment than winter fuel discounts

    2. Aero-City on

      Nice one. Stigmatise more children. You can tell kieth grew up with an AGA in his kitchen.

    3. getabath on

      Good news, the country needs to take care of its young to ensure a brighter future

    4. ConfusedQuarks on

      This is good welfare spending that brings in solid long term benefits to the society 

    5. KormetDerFrag on

      It’s a nice step, but we should be going for universal school meals – when everyone benefits, nobody is stigmatised for it.

    7. TheBig_blue on

      No child in the UK should go hungry.

      I’d like them to try and tackle the root causes of so many kids needing FSMs but this is certainly a good decision.

    8. Bumm-fluff on

      Look at Starmer’s eyes, I hope that kid has got his running shoes on.

      Looks like he’s sizing up that poor young lad for next weeks dinner.

      At 200C, 15 mins per kilo…

    9. Benandhispets on

      Wasnt every primary school child supposed to be getting free school meals by now like all London primary schools have? Add in all universe credit household children getting them then we might aswell just make them free for all school children. Completely cut out and checks or anything, just straight up every child.

      Khan gave good reasoning for why he made school meals free for all primary school children. He said sometimes kids look down on those who got free school meals because they think it means theyre poor, which sure can be correct. He said he had free school meals and got bullied for it. So by making them free for everyone it puts everyone on the same level.

      The cost is worth it anyway. Kids will be more attentive and alert and will just learn more if they have a full lunch. That’ll pay itself back many times over in the long term. Even in the short term a lot of it will be paid back because that £20/week the parents saved will immediately be spent on something else which will have VAT and be paying for staff and contributing to the GDP that way.

      But yeah free school meals for all, just do it.

    10. zen_bud on

      This is good, but funding per meal isn’t going up. Schools already lose money on each meal as it costs £3.16 to provide but they only get £2.61. The pressure will get worse after this announcement. They should scrap universal free meals for infants (coming from a family of teachers), means test it, and raise the funding per meal.

    11. squeezycheeseypeas on

      It’s astonishing that you could be so gaslit that you’d be mad that children get fed.

    12. appletinicyclone on

      This is one of those things where it is a no questions asked good

      Some kids genuinely don’t get enough food at home so giving them meals at school is super important