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🚨BREAKING: 25+ celebrities back #FreeSchoolMealsForAll 🚨 They're joining tens of thousands of educators, parents and young people to call on Rishi Sunak to extend Free School Meals to every child in primary school. Join us and sign the open letter ✍️bit.ly/3yUWP3w

Pupils and parents have told us that costs associated with going to school, and stretched family finances, are affecting children’s attendance. NEW blog from Georgina on how school costs make attendance harder. cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/new…

✍️ Our Senior Policy & Campaigns Officer, Sean, has written about his experience of #FreeSchoolMeals 🥣 School food for all is a no-brainer for Keir Starmer Read all about why in the The New Statesman 👇 #FeedtheFuture #LPC23 #SayYes #RightToFood newstatesman.com/spotlight/heal…

Are you going to be at Labour Conference? #labconf23 Join @GMPovertyAction & IFAN at our #CashFirst fringe event: 1700-1830 Sunday 8.10.23 11C ACC Liverpool We’ll hear from: Polly Jones @TrussellTrust Tom Pollard NEF Antonia Bance MP Trades Union Congress Jen Coleman blackcountryfoodbank

What did the UK Cost of the School Day project achieve? Some highlights: Intro of uniforms that can be bought in supermarkets: ‘For PE we wear these tops (old T-shirt with logo) but they don’t give them out any more because they cost too much, we just wear white T shirts’.

Great to see UFSM on the agenda at the #LDNChallengePovertyWeek child poverty summit with Children's Food Campaign (no longer posting here) The Food Foundation National Education Union Child Poverty Action Group The Mayor's Fund for London

📽️Our head of education policy Kate Anstey talks about what our new research with @GMPovertyAction means and what we're calling for.

Happy #InternationalSchoolMealsDay! We polled over 2000 UK parents on policies to ensure healthy #SchoolFoodForAll 🍽️ children. Here's a THREAD🧵on what we found 👇🏽 #ISMD24. More details: bit.ly/ISMD24

🧵 To mark #InternationalSchoolMealsDay we've joined 100+ charities/councils writing to Schools Minister Damian Hinds calling for Govt to ensure all children entitled receive #FreeSchoolMeals Up to 250,000 children living in some of most deprived households in England are not

Child poverty has become the elephant in the room in Westminster while schools are on the frontline & overwhelmed by what is being asked of them. We need to give our schools the tools & funding they need to poverty proof their schools. Starting with extending FSM & pastoral care

Our CEO Alison Garnham: “Nothing should be more important to our political leaders than making things better for the country’s poorest kids. But child poverty has reached a record high, with 4.3 million kids now facing cold homes & empty tummies.” uk.news.yahoo.com/record-number-…

7 years of the two-child limit. What does the policy mean? '... families are struggling. Always having to say “not today” to the youngest child. It affects my mental health a lot. I normally have the kids’ leftovers... the reality is there is nothing.' End Child Poverty

Labour urged to end two-child benefits cap as research reveals policy pushing families into poverty | Poverty | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

📢NEW campaign: Children embody hope for the future. Listen to the experiences of parents and carers living on low income and their hopes for a better future for their children. #HopeStartsHere Listen and Share: changingrealities.org/hope Changing Realities

Our new research with CRSP today highlights shockingly high levels of child poverty across the UK 📈Here are the main findings First 👇 2/3 of election constituencies have a child poverty rate of 25% or more. In these areas at least 1 in 4 children is living in poverty

The cost of our dysfunctional school meals system schoolsweek.co.uk/the-cost-of-ou…

After 1 year of Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan universal primary FSM policy, what do we know about the experiences of & impact on children, families & schools? 🧵 below, with key findings & recommendations for national policymakers.

‘A game-changer for children and families. We hope this is a sign of what's to come in the autumn's child poverty strategy, with government taking more action to meet its manifesto commitment to reduce child poverty in the UK.’ - Kate Anstey bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Our response to the #SpendingReview The chancellor described austerity as destructive but government is still rolling it out in the two-child limit which pulls 109 children into poverty every day. 1/2