A survey of 727 teaching staff by Kellogg’s found that 45 per cent think their breakfast clubs will close unless other funding becomes available. Two-thirds of respondents said the closure of their club would lead to lower grades and more than half (52 per cent) said behaviour will deteriorate.
Kellogg’s, which runs more than 500 breakfast clubs in partnership with charity ContinYou, has now launched a campaign and is pledging to raise £300,000 to donate to breakfast clubs by the end of 2012.
John Lane, head teacher at Sacred Heart Primary School in Islington, London, said: "Breakfast clubs are a lifeline for many children but with budgets being tight they could sadly become an unaffordable luxury in future.
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