Chancellor Announces Free Breakfast Clubs for Primary Schools
Wednesday 25th September 2024
Earlier this week (23rd Sept), the Chancellor announced that up to 750 state funded schools with primary aged pupils will begin delivering free breakfast clubs from April 2025. Funding will allow these schools to run free breakfast clubs for their pupils in the summer term (April-July 2025) as part of a test and learn phase to inform delivery of a national rollout. HMT press notice
Schools that are interested to find out more about becoming an early adopter can sign up here to be notified as further information is available.
Overview
The government is committed to offering a free breakfast club in every primary school in England.
This will build on the national wraparound childcare programme and national school breakfast programme.
We will be inviting schools to take part in an early adopter scheme. The scheme will seek to test and learn what works ahead of national rollout.
The early adopter scheme
The programme will invite up to 750 state-funded schools in England with primary aged-pupils to work with the Department for Education (DfE). It will focus on how breakfast clubs can be delivered in a way that:
- builds on what is already happening in schools
- meets the needs of parents
- ensures children start the day ready to learn
DfE will also work with the sector, including local authorities and childcare providers, businesses and charities to consider the best approaches to delivering breakfast clubs in schools.
Further information on how schools can take part in the scheme, and the model the scheme will follow, will be shared in the second half of the autumn. Early adopter schools will be confirmed by early 2025 and the scheme will launch in the summer term (April 2025).
More information about Breakfast Clubs
