The “urgent” call comes amid the “devastating reality” of the cost of living crisis, with children who fall outside the free school meal eligibility criteria going hungry at school lunchtimes, teachers say.
The Food Foundation’s latest data estimates that 2.6m children live in households that missed out on meals or struggled to access healthy food throughout the month of April 2022.
“Excluding so many vulnerable children is a real barrier to learning and must be urgently addressed”, teaching unions and organisations claiming to represent one million school staff wrote in a letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi.
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