Food poverty: rising number of children in England eligible for free school meals

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Number of pupils qualifying surges during Covid crisis, with highest rates in north-east of England

Nearly 200,000 more children were registered for free school meals in England as the early economic fallout from the pandemic hit household incomes,In the 10 months between January and October last year, the proportion of children on free school meals inshot up from 17% to nearly 20%, meaning that 1.63 million out of 8.2 million state school pupils are now in receipt of free lunches. In January 2020 the total was 1.44 million.

 

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Levelling down, all the way to the JohnsonLand abattoir for organ donation?

No doubt the Tories will remedy this soon enough, by restricting eligibility to only the very poorest of the poor.

but hey, lets spend £2m on a room with some flags and a blue background

The poor are persuaded to vote Tory because they believe that 'Labour will take my taxes and give them to poor people' not realising that they're the poor people who benefit from wealth distribution..

The rich still get richer and poor still get poorer, this pandemic has just made that even worse.

elonmusk care to donate some money for the right cause?

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What do you expect, conservatives are in power. They don’t care about your kids, just their back pockets

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