About 7,000 families in east London are set to benefit from a council's universal school uniform grant. The £50 will be available to children who are entering their first year of primary, and £ ...

On the free school meals announcement, Sir Keir said: "Working parents across the country are working tirelessly to provide for their families but are being held back by cost-of-living pressures.

The government has declared that the free school meals scheme will be expanded to include more children across the UK, commencing next year. At present, all children in England are entitled to ...

Hundreds of thousands more children will be able to access means-tested free school meals when the provision is extended from September 2026, the Government said (Ben Birchall/PA) All pupils in ...

Keir Starmer has unveiled plans to extend free lunches to all kids in families who get Universal Credit in England - check how many kids could be eligible in your area ...

As of January last year, nearly 2.1 million children in England were eligible for free school meals. The Department for Education claimed that the expansion will lift 100,000 children across ...

The government has announced the major change to free school meals will take effect from next year Keir Starmer said the expansion was ‘a truly historic moment for our country’ (Ben Birchall/PA) ...

Any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be able to claim free school meals from September 2026, the government has said. Parents on the credit will be eligible regardless ...

🎉 We’ve won Free School Meals for 500,000+ more children! This is an incredible breakthrough. But the fight isn’t over — means-testing still leaves far too many behind.

As of January this year, the eligibility rate for free school meals was 25.7% of all students, which translates to 2.17 million children, an increase from 24.6%, or 2.09 million, in January 2024 ...

The total number of children registered for free school meals in England is about 2.1 million, or 24.6% of the total pupil population, according to the latest data.

All pupils in England whose families claim Universal Credit will be eligible for free school meals, the government has announced.. Hundreds of thousands more children across the country will be ...