Party's education spokesperson, Munira Wilson, will say having pupils with full stomachs will lead to 'better academic progress'
Party's education spokesperson, Munira Wilson, will say having pupils with full stomachs will lead to 'better academic progress'Munira Wilson, the party’s education spokesperson, will deliver her keynote speech at the party’s autumn conference in Brighton, in which she is also expected to call for a national body for special educational needs and disabilities .
It is thought that she will share a story of a constituent “who told me that she stopped buying her medication so that her daughter at college could afford some lunch”.She is expected to say: “I’ve heard stories of pupils pretending to eat out of empty lunchboxes to hide from their friends that there was no food at home. That cannot be right in modern Britain.
The proposed national body for Send Ms Wilson is expected to discuss would take responsibility for children with the most complex needs and would pay any costs above a certain threshold and would mean that “the most severely disabled children can have their support paid for centrally”.
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