UK: Every Infant To Get Free School Lunch

Nick Clegg has announced plans to give free school meals to all infant schoolchildren.

The proposal, which will be a centrepiece of his leader’s speech, will cost the exchequer £600m annually.

The Deputy Prime Minister says it is a key part of his drive to help people with the cost of living.

“It’s great, great news for all families with small children in those first three years of primary school,” he told Sky News.

“It will save them about £400 per child per year.”

The Liberal Democrats say that pilot schemes have demonstrated free school meals also have a positive impact on educational attainment.

Mr Clegg said: “I think it’s a way of giving every child that good start in life, because we all know – I certainly know as a parent – that a healthy, hot meal at lunchtime is the best way of making sure that a child can concentrate and do well in the classroom during the course of the rest of the day.”

The flagship policy to emerge from the Liberal Democrats’ Glasgow conference will be balanced in two weeks’ time by a parallel announcement from the Conservatives.

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