Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Pupils missing out on free lunches
25 June 2013 Last updated at 15:48 GMT By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter School lunch can be the only proper meal of the day for some disadvantaged children, say campaigners Almost a quarter of a million children registered for free school meals are not eating them, figures show. Figures from January show 1,307,455 pupils registered for free school meals, a key measure of poverty. Of these, 82.7% actually took up the dinners, meaning 225,690 schoolchildren were not eating the free
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