Sentences with phrase «free school meals for infant pupils»

The government said its provision of free school meals for infant pupils had helped boost their learning.

Free school meals for infant pupils must be protected and not sacrificed in any budget cuts, say top doctors and nutritionists in a letter to a paper.

David Laws, Minister for Schools, has today launched an implementation support package to help schools prepare to deliver universal free school meals for all infant pupils beginning in September.

«Following last week's wonderful news regarding universal free school meals for infant pupils, we believe this decision is a sensible one.

It is widely hoped that the government's introduction of universal free school meals for infant pupils this term, as recommended in the School Food Plan, will give young people a healthy start in life and benefit families.

Universal free school meals for infant pupils is one of the most widely - known and talked about initiatives to come from the Plan, but there is growing concern regarding its continued use.

Clegg criticises Gove's advisers for giving negative briefings to newspapers about the plan to provide free school meals for all infant pupils — a proposal championed by the Lib Dems, and implemented by Gove's own department.

«Following last week's wonderful news regarding universal free school meals for infant pupils, we believe this decision is a sensible one.

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The Department for Education is inviting tenders to the value of # 17.4 million for services to support school readiness to provide school lunches to all infant pupils in England from September 2014 (# 9.6 m); to kick start increased take up in at least 2000 junior and secondary schools where take - up of school lunches is low (# 4.8 m); and to set up breakfast clubs in at least 500 schools where over 35 % of pupils are eligible for free school meals and there is no existing breakfast provision (# 3m).

«By autumn this year, schools will have introduced new safeguarding advice in staff recruitment, ensured their practices comply with new freedom of information policies, made decisions on new pay policies, adopted new codes of practice for special needs pupils, introduced an entirely new curriculum, redesigned assessment and ensured every primary school is ready to offer free school meals to infants regardless of existing kitchen facilities,» he said.

He grasped the centre ground by focusing on living standards and cost of living policy discussion and announcements: the Pupil Premium, capping social care costs, state pension reforms, free childcare, cutting income tax, and, his big policy statement: free school meals for all infants.

This is exactly why the Welsh Liberal Democrats continue to call for high quality childcare, universal free school meals for all infants, and for our Pupil Deprivation Grant to be extended to nursery school pupils.

The Conservative's manifesto promises to scrap universal infant free school meals, which cost around # 600 million a year, to be replaced with free breakfast for primary pupils, which has been said to cost # 60 million a year.

Hundreds of documents were released on December 17, including several warning notices to academy trusts and councils, and plans to cut the annual # 2,300 grant to help small infant schools fund free meals for their pupils were announced with a minor webpage update at 4.25 pm on Friday, January 29.

Breakfast clubs are more cost - effective than the government's flagship # 1 billion universal infant free school meals policy in improving outcomes for pupils in disadvantaged areas, according to researchers...

But the introduction of the universal infant free school meal policy last year has had a knock - on for pupil premium.

These reforms do not affect the Pupil Premium or universal infant free school meals grants that schools receive, or academies» Education Services Grant — the rates for these will be announced separately by the DfE.