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Children who claim free school meals earn less as adults despite education – ONS

Children who claim free school meals go on to earn less than their peers on average despite achieving the same level of education, according to new data. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said data published on Thursday showed a “persistent ...

04 Aug 2022 at 19:49

Northern Ireland

Summer time school meals grants announced

The families of children who receive free school meals will get additional financial support for the summer break. Stormont Education Minister Michelle McIlveen has announced a £12.6 million fund for the school holiday food grant scheme. Running ...

07 Jun 2022 at 10:52

Health

Chef quits 20 cigar a day habit to turn vegan and start UK’s first plant-based school kitchen prompted by wife’s allergies and parents’ deaths

A globetrotting chef has launched the UK’s first plant-based school kitchen as his parents’ shocking deaths and his wife’s food allergies saw him ditching his 20-a-day cigar habit and meat and dairy heavy diet to become a health-conscious vegan....

20 Apr 2022 at 08:25

Health

Chef quits 20-cigar-a-day habit to turn vegan and start UK’s first plant-based school kitchen prompted by wife’s allergies and parents’ deaths

20 Apr 2022 at 08:55

Derry News

Free school meals must be extended beyond Easter, state SDLP and Sinn Féin

The SDLP and Sinn Féin have both made calls for the extension of free school meals beyond Easter. Mark H Durkan and Ciara Ferguson, who are both candidates for the SDLP and Sinn Féin respectively in next month's Assembly election, state ...

15 Apr 2022 at 14:33

Teaching unions push for free school meals expansion

Teaching unions push for free school meal expansion – report

Teaching unions have written to the Chancellor and Education Secretary asking for free school meals to be provided to all children from families receiving Universal Credit in England. Unions and organisations claiming to represent one ...

31 May 2022 at 14:40

Former Tory Education Secretary joins call for free school meal expansion

Former Tory MP and Education Secretary Justine Greening has joined a call for an expansion of the free school meal programme in light of the cost-of-living crisis. Teaching unions earlier wrote to the Chancellor and Education ...

01 Jun 2022 at 05:08

Local News

Mid Ulster MP raises concern over Summer hunger

Sinn Féin MP, Francie Molloy has said the DUP boycott of Stormont is preventing the extension of free school meal payments for children and families over the summer months. The Mid Ulster MP said: “Ordinary working families ...

02 Jun 2022 at 20:33

National News

Minister Humphreys 'absolutely determined' to expand school meals programme

A planned evaluation examining the expansion of the School Meals Programme has been announced by the Minister for Social Protection. The programme, which currently supports approximately 1,500 schools at a cost of ...

07 Apr 2022 at 11:33

Government denies ‘dragging feet’ over free school meals eligibility extension

The Government has denied “dragging their feet” over whether to make free school meals permanently available to children in some families with no recourse to public funds (NRPF). Children and families minister ...

19 Jan 2022 at 14:56

Raising benefits in line with wages ‘would push 200,000 children into poverty’

Two hundred thousand more children will be pushed into poverty if benefits rise in line with wages rather than inflation, new analysis suggests. Campaigners have warned “U-turning on children’s futures cannot ...

09 Oct 2022 at 01:01

School meals industry ‘on its knees’ with shortages and rising costs – survey

Children face a deterioration in school meals due to shortages and increasing prices, a survey suggests. Ninety-one per cent of the 99 school meal providers polled by Laca The School Food People across ...

10 Oct 2022 at 01:01

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