breakfast club

An Essex primary school head teacher says a national free breakfast club scheme for pupils is "indicative of society".

Newport Primary School already runs its own breakfast club, but the government scheme provides an additional 30 minutes of childcare, enabling the breakfast club to start earlier in the morning.

Ms Wareham said that of the 160 pupils at her primary, about 30 had registered to use the new breakfast club, compared to five or six who used the school's own one.

Her comments echoed those of Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, who said prior to the rollout that funding for the breakfast club scheme "isn't sufficient".

The school said it previously could not make its breakfast club free for all pupils due to staffing and food costs.