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No new money for 1p-per-child breakfast scheme, miserly Tories admit
THE government has admitted that its plan for breakfast clubs to provide meals costing 1p per child will not be funded by new money.
The admission was made in an answer to a written parliamentary question tabled by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner yesterday after Education Secretary Damian Hinds unveiled the policy on March 19.
Mr Hinds trumpeted the £26 million “funding boost” for breakfast clubs, but he neglected to mention that the funding had already been announced last October.
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