HUNDREDS of thousands of children in the UK could lose access to breakfast at school due to slashed budgets.
Findings revealed that 43 per cent of teachers say their breakfast club will have to close in the next three years.
In the report by Kellogg’s titled ‘The future of school breakfast clubs: a funding crisis in the UK’, teachers were asked to list the reasons they fear their clubs will close: 86 per cent said school funding was the main reason.
Teachers told how the new requirement for extra staffing in clubs (44 per cent) will make them more difficult to run.
In a bid to keep the clubs open, a quarter of schools have redirected funds from other parts of the school budget such as school trips, making staff cuts and buying fewer classroom resources.
More than a quarter (27 per cent) of parents say the absence of a breakfast club would mean at least one parent would be forced out of work.
Schools in your area could win £1000 funding for their club by entering the Kellogg’s Breakfast Club awards.
Go to: www.breakfastclubawards.co.uk.
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