Hungry children should not be forced into a situation where they have to scavenge and steal food, a charity boss has warned as she made the case for free school meals to be extended to all pupils living in poverty.
Stephanie Slater, chief executive of School Food Matters, one of the charities that together with the Food Foundation is backing the Feed the Future campaign, said: “We have to decide as a nation that it is wrong to make hungry children forage for food and that extending free school meals to all children in poverty is the right thing to do because one thing we know — hungry children cannot learn.”
