Nursery World - School breakfast clubs 'in crisis' with 6,000 due to close

A new report suggests a ‘bleak future’ for school breakfast clubs as more than four in ten teachers say their club will close in the next three years.

The report, by Kellogg’s in association with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), and based upon a survey of 750 teachers and national statistics on school populations, reveals that 43 per cent of teachers believe their breakfast club will have to close in the next few years.

According to ‘The Future of School Breakfast Clubs: a Funding Crisis in the UK’, this means the equivalent of 6,700 breakfast clubs will close in the next few years, affecting around 200,000 children – 163,000 primary pupils, 31,000 secondary pupils and 6,000 special school pupils.

The figures are based upon national statistics on the number of primary schools and pupils in the UK, combined with the survey results on the proportion of schools with breakfast clubs, the proportion of schools’ breakfast clubs that are at risk of closure and the number of pupils who regularly attend breakfast clubs.

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