Free school meals: Teachers join Jamie Oliver’s free school meals call for households on universal credit
. Adding momentum to Oliver’s recent campaign, teacher organisations have written to the prime minister to approve the new rule which would bring free school meals to an additional 800,000 of the most vulnerable children., has been signed by leaders of 12 unions and groups representing up to a million teaching staff, school trustees and governors across the country.
for better access to free school meals for children in the UK. The chef has campaigned for groups like Feed The Future, who has backed the teachers’ letter.:"The reality is, if you speak to the best minds in economics, in the country, in the world, they will tell you that if you output healthier kids, you’re going to have a more productive, more profitable country.
This means that about 40% of households claiming universal credit and who have low-income jobs earn more than that annually and therefore won’t qualify for free school meals for their children. In
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