Nursery World - Nursery Food: Breakfast clubs

Breakfast clubs are playing an increasingly important role in the early years. Katy Morton reports.

Parents are becoming increasingly reliant on breakfast clubs to feed their children, as food inflation continues to rise and family incomes to stagnate. The Government has even committed £3.15m of funding, as part of its School Food Plan, to offer a healthy breakfast to children arriving at school hungry.

A survey of 3,000 school support staff in June by trade union Unison revealed that more than half (55 per cent) have seen a rise this year in the number of children relying on breakfast clubs.

With that has come a sharp increase in the number of schools wanting to set up clubs. Magic Breakfast, a charity that delivers free healthy breakfasts to 240 UK schools with more than 50 per cent of pupils eigible for free school meals, now has 160 schools on its waiting list, up from 130 in March.

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