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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Campaigners criticise Jeremy Hunt’s failure to widen access to free school meals in Autumn Statement

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt at a visit to a school on Thursday

(Picture: PA Wire)

Campaigners have criticised a failure by Jeremy Hunt to widen access to free school meals in his Autumn statement.

It comes after the Standard’s special investigation found that hundreds of thousands of children living in poverty in the UK do not qualify for free school meals, with parents forced to steal to stave off hunger.

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