The UK government has been called upon to provide more children with free school meals to help tackle the 'devastating reality' of the cost of living crisis in England, teachers say.
According to reports, teaching unions have written to the Chancellor and Education Secretary to urge them to give free school meals to children from families receiving Universal Credit in England.
In a bid to help families struggling under the pressures of soaring household bills as the cost-of-living bites, unions and organisations claiming to represent one million school staff asked Rishi Sunak and Nadhim Zahawi for an “urgent” expansion of the free school meals scheme, WalesOnline reports.
