Schools

Snap, crackle and flop? Breakfast clubs have rocky launch

Early adopter school considered pulling out, with concerns over schools losing club income

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
breakfast clubs

Breakfast clubs ‘early adopters’: What schools need to know

Up to 750 primary schools sought to help pilot clubs before their national rollout

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Government ‘gaming the figures’ on £24m breakfast club scheme

Freedom of information data shows over half of the clubs involved so far are not new

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Breakfast clubs: Schools to pay 25% of costs from next year

Schools will have to contribute 25 per cent of the costs of running breakfast clubs under the national scheme...

James Carr
James Carr
News

£24m committed to extend breakfast clubs programme for two more years

The Department for Education will spend £24 million extending its breakfast clubs programme for a further two years. The...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE extends breakfast clubs pilot over summer – but there’s no extra money

The government’s national school breakfast programme is to be extended over the summer, but there’s no extra funding available....

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Just 1 in 6 breakfast clubs in £26m scheme are actually new

Just 286 new breakfast clubs have been created under a £26 million government scheme, ministers have finally admitted. The...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker