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7 years of the two-child limit.

What does the policy mean?

'... families are struggling. Always having to say “not today” to the youngest child. It affects my mental health a lot. I normally have the kids’ leftovers... the reality is there is nothing.'

End Child Poverty

Our CEO Alison Garnham: “Nothing should be more important to our political leaders than making things better for the country’s poorest kids. But child poverty has reached a record high, with 4.3 million kids now facing cold homes & empty tummies.” uk.news.yahoo.com/record-number-…

YOUR LEAGUE WINNERS 23/24!!

Child poverty has become the elephant in the room in Westminster while schools are on the frontline & overwhelmed by what is being asked of them. We need to give our schools the tools & funding they need to poverty proof their schools. Starting with extending FSM & pastoral care

Happy #InternationalSchoolMealsDay ! We polled over 2000 UK parents on policies to ensure healthy #SchoolFoodForAll 🍽️ children. Here's a THREAD🧵on what we found 👇🏽 #ISMD24 .

More details: bit.ly/ISMD24

🧵 To mark #InternationalSchoolMealsDay we've joined 100+ charities/councils writing to Schools Minister Damian Hinds calling for Govt to ensure all children entitled receive #FreeSchoolMeals

Up to 250,000 children living in some of most deprived households in England are not…

📽️Our head of education policy Kate Anstey talks about what our new research with Greater Manchester Poverty Action means and what we're calling for.

Great to see UFSM on the agenda at the #LDNChallengePovertyWeek child poverty summit with Children's Food Campaign The Food Foundation National Education Union Child Poverty Action Group The Mayor's Fund for London

What did the UK Cost of the School Day project achieve?

Some highlights:

Intro of uniforms that can be bought in supermarkets: ‘For PE we wear these tops (old T-shirt with logo) but they don’t give them out any more because they cost too much, we just wear white T shirts’.

Are you going to be at Labour Conference? #labconf23

Join Greater Manchester Poverty Action & IFAN at our #CashFirst fringe event:
1700-1830 Sunday 8.10.23
11C ACC Liverpool
We’ll hear from:
Polly Jones The Trussell Trust
Tom Pollard NEF
Antonia Bance Trades Union Congress
Jen Coleman blackcountryfoodbank

✍️ Our Senior Policy & Campaigns Officer, Sean, has written about his experience of #FreeSchoolMeals

🥣 School food for all is a no-brainer for Keir Starmer

Read all about why in the The New Statesman 👇

#FeedtheFuture #LPC23 #SayYes #RightToFood

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Pupils and parents have told us that costs associated with going to school, and stretched family finances, are affecting children’s attendance.

NEW blog from Georgina on how school costs make attendance harder.

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🚨BREAKING: 25+ celebrities back #FreeSchoolMealsForAll 🚨

They're joining tens of thousands of educators, parents and young people to call on Rishi Sunak to extend Free School Meals to every child in primary school.

Join us and sign the open letter ✍️bit.ly/3yUWP3w

📢 A new Education Committee report calls on Department for Education to review its #FreeSchoolMeals policy to ensure all children in #poverty can benefit.

Every child deserves access to nutritious food and the need couldn't be greater with 900,000 in England currently missing out!…

Exciting new opportunity for someone passionate about carrying out lived experience research.

We're helping evaluate the rollout of universal primary free school meals in London.

Please share.

#CharityJobs

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A survey of 1,000+ school staff in every role in England shows child poverty is ripping through school communities.

The National Education Union is part of this work. We’re calling for urgent Government action on child poverty. Child Poverty Action Group

Read more 👉 cpag.org.uk/schoolsurvey

Today we publish the results of our coalition survey of 1,000+ school staff in England.

Schools are reeling in the face of rising child poverty.

79% of school staff said time must be diverted from core roles to combat child poverty

We’ll be sharing quotes throughout today ⬇️

NEW – Nearly 9/10 schools providing uniforms and clothing to pupils due to #CostofLiving pressures, according to teacher survey.

• Full story - bit.ly/48h7XZd
• Key findings - bit.ly/3ZdNArx
• Full PDF report - bit.ly/3sGcuUH

Starting today, #FreeSchoolMealsForAll rolls out in primary schools across London.

For one year, children will eat, learn and grow - 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓.