Nursery World - Labour plan for breakfast clubs 'first step on the road to a modern childcare system’

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson will pledge to roll out free breakfast clubs to all primary school children, invest in the childcare workforce, and oppose the Government's plan to change staff to child ratios in early years settings.

A Labour government would provide free breakfasts to all primary school children PHOTO Adobe Stock

Speaking at the Labour Party’s Annual Conference today (Wednesday 28 September) Phillipson will announce that a Labour Government would introduce fully funded breakfast clubs for every primary school in England.

Labour said that providing breakfast clubs for all children would be the first step towards supporting families from the end of parental leave to the end of primary school.

New data from Labour suggests at least 800,000 children do not have access to early morning provision – a fifth of schoolchildren in England – and those that do often face barriers because of costs or limits on numbers able to access the breakfast clubs.

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