Free breakfast clubs roll out at seven Central Bedfordshire schools

As part of the Government scheme, parents will now be able to save up to 95 additional hours and £450 per year if their child attends free breakfast clubs every day – plus all pupils will also get at least 30 minutes of free childcare.

The schools are:

Linslade School Westoning Lower School Alameda Middle School in Ampthill Meppershall Church of England Academy Laburnum Primary School in Sandy Shefford Lower School Maulden Lower School

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: “As a parent, I know that the combined pressures of family life and work can often feel impossible to juggle. That is why our manifesto promised to make parents lives easier and put more money in their pockets with free breakfast clubs. Under a year since we came into office, this government is delivering that through our Plan for Change.

“The rollout of free breakfast clubs is a truly game-changing moment for families in this country. They mean parents will no longer be hamstrung by rigid school hours and have the breathing space they need to beat the morning rush, attend work meetings and doctors’ appointments, or run errands. And crucially, it means better life chances for children.

“By making these clubs free and universal, we’re doing something that previous governments have never done. We’re going further and faster to deliver the change working families deserve. That’s the change this government was elected to deliver.”

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