London mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged £130m of funding to provide free school meals for every primary school child in 2023-24 to support families through the cost-of-living crisis.
More than £900m spent on reducing the gap in GCSE results between disadvantaged and affluent children in Northern Ireland “has not made any demonstrable difference”, a damning report has found.
Councils in England are set to receive an additional £170m in government funding following a government U-turn over additional support for low-income families this winter.
Families rely more on food banks over the summer holidays because children do not have access to free school meals, according to an anti-poverty charity.
