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Free School Meals

Proceeding contribution from Karin Smyth (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 21 October 2020. It occurred during Opposition day on Free School Meals.

May I take the Secretary of State back to children and schools? As my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) has outlined, schools are anchors in the community. School leaders are already overburdened by much of what they are having to do, but they are already doing much of it. This week I visited FareShare South West in Bristol, which reaches out and uses community anchors to feed children and families. We have a golden opportunity to use schools as community anchors. The Secretary of State needs to see this differently and do that, and also include nurseries and children’s centres—the anchors for families. He needs to reconsider.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
682 c1134 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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