The UK government has launched a policy for free breakfast clubs in primary schools, aiming to tackle child poverty while avoiding the costly repeal of the two-child benefit cap. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson announced the first 750 schools to implement the initiative, highlighting its potential to enhance attendance and academic performance for the 67,000 disadvantaged students involved. Critics from the Labour party argue this focus on breakfast clubs is a distraction from more effective poverty reduction measures, particularly the need to abolish the restrictive two-child cap on benefits established in 2017, which they claim is crucial to alleviating child poverty further.
"Breakfast clubs have been shown to improve children's reading, writing and mathematics, with improved concentration and focus. They will play an important role in tackling child poverty."
"Labour MPs have voiced concerns that the government is using breakfast clubs to distract from their refusal to abolish the two-child benefit cap, a move experts deem necessary to effectively combat poverty."
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