Magic Breakfast, which hands out healthy breakfasts to around 200,000 children in deprived areas of England daily, has also warned that its delivery costs have “risen considerably due to large increases in fuel prices”.
Figures from Magic Breakfast show that just one in four schools in England meets the government’s criteria for funded breakfast provision.
This is despite research from the Food Foundation revealing that one in five households with children have experienced food insecurity in the past six months - seven percentage points higher than the first six months of the pandemic.
Magic Breakfast’s Hidden Hunger report notes that the “reason schools are unable to provide breakfast is usually costs or staffing”.
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