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Breakfast Clubs: Disadvantaged

Asked by Damian HindsConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 23 October 2024UIN 5982

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) special schools and (d) alternative provision with 40% or more pupils in bands A-F of the income deprivation affecting children index took up the National School Breakfast Club programme in 2023-24.

Answered by Stephen Morgan

The National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP) currently supports up to 2,700 participating schools in disadvantaged areas, meaning that thousands of children from low-income families are being offered free nutritious breakfasts to better support their attainment, wellbeing, and readiness to learn.

Information on the number and types of schools, when accounting only for schools with 40% or more pupils in the income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) A to F areas, will be available in due course.

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