No more free school meals for youngest pupils.

Luckygirl Who provided the lunches for those children entitled to free school meals before they were made compulsory for KS1?

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It was only KS1 pupils who were entitled to FSM, KS2 had to pay or take a packed lunch, just to clarify.

The point is who is going to pay for supervision of Breakfast Clubs? It's not the case that most schools already have them either. When I worked for the LEA I provided funding for setting up Breakfast Clubs, to pay mainly for equipment such as large toasters, a fridge, dishes, cutlery etc. In schools who didn't have their own kitchen. But the ongoing staffing costs were picked up by the school as they had a budget for Out of Hours provision, which has since dried up.

It can't be right to take away a cooked school dinner for 'infants' and replace it with a bowl of cereal, a piece of toast and a glass of juice.

Incidentally my GC attend 3 different schools and none of them run a Breakfast Club.

Yes, I already said that. But now they're doing away with free school lunches for primaary school pupils, so what's your point, Luckygirl?

I am governor at a very small rural primary - you have no idea the problems that were caused by the free school meals. Who to get to do it? - is anyone willing to travel to the middle of nowhere for the minute profit on a few meals? Ah, well, the school will have to subsidise them from their already minute and dwindling budget - well that's just fine then.

I don't need to be told anything by you.

You need to listen to the experts.

Mine do too, although theirs at school are free already (being in Wales).

Yes, I think it was, it came in around that time and wasn't universally popular with schools.There are already breakfast clubs in most schools now aren't there?
My DGS enjoys one at home and another breakfast at school ( and he's still thin.)

Yes, kitchens having to be installed, staff engaged etc.

Wasn't it Nick Clegg's trade-off policy as student tuition fees were introduced despite the LibDem promise that they wouldn't be?

This policy may never see the light of day, Parliament may well reject it.
If it does go ahead ( and free school meals for all children at primaries hasn't been around that long) then money and staff funding would need to be provided.
I remember a bit of a furore by teachers when this hot meal idea came in, there was quite a bit of huffing and puffing from some schools ( who didn't do any/many
Hot lunches).

I have been wondering: what impact will this have on the many nurseries currently running breakfast clubs, and who quite possibly rely on these to help offset the under-funding of the free hours that they are expected to provide for 4 and 4 year olds? Could it push them over the edge?

She really is a piece of work . I had hopes that she wouldn`t be another Thatcher but is turning out to be worse . God help us .

I despair!