An estimated 25,000 Scots kids living in poverty still don't receive free school lunches.
One in five children in poverty in Scotland are still not eligible for free school meals, according to new analysis.
This month's Programme for Government instead restricted support for kids in P6 and P7 from low income families. The 20 per cent rate of Scots kids in poverty missing out was lower than the English rate of 33 per cent. Northern Ireland also had 20 per cent missing out. "With so many children in poverty missing out, young people themselves telling us what a priority free school meals are, and the Scottish Parliament unanimous in its support the First Minister must surely now reinstate the delivery of free school meals for all primary school pupils.”
John Swinney Education Schools
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