Eight more schools across Milton Keynes offering breakfast clubs from start of new academic year
Eight more schools across Milton Keynes are offering breakfast clubs from the start of the new academic year in September.
More than 2,700 children across the country are set to be eligible for breakfast clubs from September, which will include a total of 18 schools across Milton Keynes.
Schools across the city that are launching breakfast clubs from September are Barleyhurst Park Primary School, Bradwell Village School, Knowles Primary School, Orchard Academy, Priory Common School, Romans Field School, Stephenson Academy and Summerfield School.
They will join Brooklands Farm Primary School, Brooksward School, Falconhurst School, Greenleys First School, Greenleys Junior School, Holmwood School, Moorland Primary School, St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School, The Willows School and Early Years Centre and Water Hall Primary School, which already offer the breakfast clubs.
Milton Keynes MPs Callum Anderson, Emily Darlington and Chris Curtis have welcomed the increase in breakfast clubs, as well as other measures aimed at reducing school costs for parents.
These include new legal limits on the number of branded items that schools can require, meaning parents can buy more everyday basics, such as trousers or shirts, from any shop or supermarket rather than a single supplier.
The Government is also publishing strengthened statutory guidance, encouraging schools to take further steps to reduce the cost of individual items, particularly blazers and jumpers.
The Government claims that the expansion of free school meals and wider policies combined will take 550,000 children out of poverty - including 8,500 across the three Milton Keynes Parliamentary constituencies.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who today visited Milton Keynes to unveil the next wave of schools benefiting from the Government’s solar panels programme said: “No parent should have to choose between a summer day out to the beach and kitting their child out for school.
“From September, families will feel the difference at the school gates - free breakfast clubs at 1,400 more schools, an end to expensive lists of branded uniform, and more free lunches for those who need them.
“That's the British childhood this Government believes in - and why we'll always fight to give every child the very best start in life."