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Support for school breakfast club provision.
Free British breakfasts for primary school kids as government joins forces with household brands
Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding for free breakfast clubs for primary schools from September 2025 to March 2026.
The first wave of the government’s free breakfast clubs have already served two million meals, delivering on the Plan for Change.
Thousands more families will soon benefit from free breakfast clubs as the government confirms plans for 2,000 new schools to join the scheme from April 2026.
Review of the available published evidence on the links between skipping breakfast and short-term cognition and memory.
How universal free breakfast clubs have helped give children a supportive start to the school day.
Estimated pupil take-up of early adopter free breakfast clubs in the first half of the summer term 2025 and an indication of the number of breakfasts served.
First 750 schools to offer clubs from April, delivering on government’s Plan for Change.
Guidance explaining the role of schools taking part in the breakfast clubs early adopter programme.
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