05/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: Government backs Lib Dem call to expand Free School Meals!
The Government has finally listened to calls to expand free school meals to all children on universal credit, a longstanding Liberal Democrat policy.
Our Munira Wilson has consistently put pressure on the Government on the issue including a recent amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which the Government voted down, to expand free school meals to all children in poverty.
Under the Conservatives, struggling families had to skip meals or sacrifice prescriptions to make sure their children had lunch to eat. Their lives will be transformed by this change.
This can only be a first step. To end the cost of learning crisis, the Government needs to commit to auto-enrolling eligible children for free school meals, lifting the two child benefit cap, and capping uniform costs to truly change the lives of children in poverty.
We’ll hold their feet to the fire to make sure today’s change is just a start.