The Mayor of London has announced that City Hall is providing emergency funding to give free school meals for all of London’s primary school pupils for one academic year from September 2023.

The £130m emergency scheme will help families with the spiralling cost of living by ensuring that every primary schoolchild in London will receive free school meals in the next academic year. The one-off proposal will ensure that healthy free school meals are universally available to all primary school pupils due to the extreme pressures currently facing households across the capital.

The unprecedented move will help around 270,000 primary school children and save families around £440 per child across the year.

You can read more here on the Greater London Authority website: london.gov.uk.