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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
David Cohen

Free school meals plea for every child living in poverty

Campaigners have called on the Prime Minister to extend free school meals to all children in poverty in England and end the hunger crisis that is damaging their life chances.

Their appeal, Feed the Future, comes as a new study by accounting firm PwC — released exclusively to us and our sister title The Independent — reveals that the economic benefit to society of this policy shift would amount to £2.5 billion over 20 years.

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