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Poverty: Nearly half of children miss school meals due to lack of money
3m families struggle with school costs like meals, books and uniforms
ALMOST half of children living in poverty had to skip a school meal through lack of money, a study by the Children’s Commission on Poverty (CCP) revealed today.
The CCP figures show how 19 per cent of children in homes that were “not well off at all” sometimes missed school meals.
A further 17 per cent had missed meals once or twice and 5 per cent went hungry in school regularly.
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