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Breakfast Clubs

Asked by Damian HindsConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 17 April 2025UIN 34818

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the schools participating in the new breakfast club pilot previously had no breakfast provision.

Answered by Stephen Morgan

Findings from the ‘School and college voice: February 2024’ report show that 28% of primary school leaders, excluding special schools, said their school does not offer childcare both before and after school. Of those offering childcare both before and after school, this includes paid for childcare and clubs with only limited spaces available. The department does not hold data on the duration of each existing breakfast club in England. The department’s new breakfast clubs are free, open to all pupils in the school, include food and are at least 30 minutes in duration.

The primary schools which will start delivering the government’s free breakfast clubs from the summer term as early adopters are a nationally representative sample of primary schools in England.

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