More than 225,000 children are missing out on free school meals despite being eligible for them. The Mirror reports that statistics from the Children’s Food Trust show that 17.1 per cent of the 1,307,455 children registered for free school meals were not taking them up.
Wales's education minister Leighton Andrews has resigned after he defended a school in his constituency that faced closure under his own surplus places policy, the BBC reports. In a letter, Andrews said: "I regret that my commitment to my constituents may have led me to an apparent conflict which led to difficulty for the government."
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