Some two-year-olds receiving the council's free early education entitlement will also receive help from September.
The authority said the measure was part of a wider multimillion-pound investment to protect residents from the worst effects of the cost-of-living crisis, and could provide lunch to as many as 14,000 children in the borough. "It cannot be right that children in one of the richest cities on earth are being left to make do with scraps. We need to see equality built into the system for future generations."
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