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to prepare and provide a hot, nutritious school meal every single day for every single child is a way of creating a break between food poverty and also healthy young people who can thrive at school and do well at school because, without good food, you just don t survive or do well at school. currently in england, all infant state school pupils up to year 2 get free school meals during term time. but from year 3 upwards, your household income must be below £7,400 a year. in northern ireland, the cap is set higher at 14,000 a year. and scotland and wales have recently committed to rolling out free meals for all primary pupils. the latest call for change follows footballer marcus rashford s successful campaign during the pandemic to extend free school meal vouchers during holidays. but even he admits there
poverty and also healthy young people who can thrive at school and do well at school because, without good food, you just don t survive or do well at school. currently in england, all infant state school pupils up to year 2 get free school meals during term time. but from year 3 upwards, your household income must be below £7,400 a year. in northern ireland, the cap is set higher at 14,000 a year. and scotland and wales have recently committed to rolling out free meals for all primary pupils. the latest call for change follows footballer marcus rashford s successful campaign during the pandemic to extend free school meal vouchers during holidays. but even he admits there is a long way to go. the department for education says more families than ever now have access to free school meals and they are providing over
day for every single child is a way of creating a break between food poverty and also healthy young people who can thrive at school and do well at school because, without good food, you just don t survive or do well at school. currently in england, all infant state school pupils up to year 2 get free school meals during term time. currently in england, all infant state school pupils up to year 2 get free school meals during term time. but from year 3 upwards, your household income must be below £7,400 a year. in northern ireland, the cap is set higher at 14,000 a year. and scotland and wales have recently committed to rolling out free meals for all primary pupils. the latest call for change follows footballer marcus rashford s successful campaign during the pandemic to extend free school meal vouchers during holidays. but even he admits there is a long way to go. the department for education says more families than ever now have access to free school meals
and they are providing over £15 billion of support to those hit hardest by rising costs. but teachers in england now urgently want to see the government go further. alice key, bbc news. kate anstey from the child poverty action group has been telling us about the scale of the problem and the cost of delivering school meals not only to children from families in receipt of universal credit, but to all children. there are about1 million children living below the poverty line who do not currently qualify for free school meals because that threshold is far too low, as the report shared, it s 7400 a year, so many working families who are living in poverty miss out. at child poverty action group, we believe the most important intervention would be for universal provision. this is currently being rolled out in wales and scotland, so every child in primary school in wales and scotland will receive a universal free school meal.