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LABOUR has dismissed the government’s “inadequate” plans to pump £26 million into school breakfast clubs across England.
According to the Department of Education today, more than 1,770 state schools will receive the cash, with money targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country.
Two charities, Family Action and Magic Breakfast, will be responsible for running the clubs, which are due to start this spring.
The funding, which has been raised by the government’s recent levy on soft drinks, will cover both new and existing school breakfast clubs.
But shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: “The Tories are still shredding their manifesto one page at a time and they are trying to hide behind old policy announcements to do it.
“They abandoned their promise of a breakfast for every primary school child, slashed the healthy pupils fund by more than three-quarters and now they are reannouncing a six-month-old policy and hoping nobody will notice.”