The Department for Education has announced an expansion of its breakfast club programme to support disadvantaged children.
The £10 million a year scheme to expand the provision in up to 1,600 schools will focus on supporting disadvantaged pupils, families, schools and areas.
The DfE’s original programme ran from October 2014 to March 2016 and involved setting up a sustainable breakfast club in schools where more than 35 per cent of pupils were eligible for free meals.
A tender exercise for the expansion programme will launch this autumn.
An evaluation of the programme found clubs reduced children’s hunger and improved their concentration and behaviour.
The news that the scheme is being expanded follows research by Kellogg’s which found that more than 6,000 school breakfast clubs are expected to close in the next few years, affecting around 200,000 children, including those in the most deprived parts of the country.
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