All children from families on universal credit will get free school meals from the 2026 school year in Labour child poverty ...

Keir Starmer unveiled plans to extend free school meals to all kids in families who get Universal Credit, in a move that ...

The move comes after campaigners and education leaders called for an extension to ease pressures on young people living in ...

The statistics reveal that 52% of children in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East are living in poverty - making it the worst in ...

Charities and school leaders welcomed the change but urged the Government to reconsider the two-child benefit cap to ease ...

The move, which comes after a major campaign by The Independent, said the expansion will lift 100,000 children across England ...

Currently households on Universal Credit must earn below £7,400 a year (after tax and not including benefits) to qualify. But ...

About 500,000 extra children in England will be eligible for free schools meals under an expansion of the scheme as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to head off a backbench rebellion by Labour MPs.

The UK government is set to revolutionise its approach to child poverty by extending free school meals to all children in Universal Credit households.

The government has announced that hundreds of thousands more children will now be eligible for free school meals ...

As the world observes the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, it does so under a pall thicker than ...

All pupils in England whose families claim the benefit from the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) will qualify. The ...