Despite concerns over funding, the Minister for Early Education, Stephen Morgan, has defended the rollout of free breakfast clubs in schools, insisting they will “make a huge difference to children’s lives.”
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00:00So today more than 750 schools are introducing breakfast clubs, free breakfast clubs across the country in towns and cities up and down the country.
00:08We know that they're good for attendance, they're good for behaviour, they're good for attainment and also put more money back in parents' pockets.
00:16We tripled the amount of funding for breakfast clubs in the budget last year and we know that they can make a huge difference to children's lives.
00:24If you take an average primary school with 250 pupils, 50% take up on the breakfast clubs, they will get £23,000 a year and that funds the food, that funds the delivery and it funds the staffing.
00:38So well worth the investment to make a difference to children's lives.