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Marie Sharp

Call for East Lothian schools to provide free breakfast clubs to help 'working poor'

Free breakfast and after-school clubs should be provided for all pupils In East Lothian to help struggling families cope with the cost of living crisis, two SNP councillors have argued.

Councillors Lee-Anne Menzies and Cher Cassini will call for the cost of providing the clubs to help the county's "working poor" with the addition of a free meal provided at the clubs to be investigated.

In a motion to a meeting of the full council next week the councillors point to the number of families who have used East Lothian Food Bank this year as evidence of the growing crisis in the county.

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