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News | Poverty

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Free school meals eligibility finally expanded – but what comes next?

East Ham vs Newcastle: The sobering geography of social mobility

Parents pay £1,003 a year to send their child to primary school

'Shameful' – 100,000 more children slip into poverty due to falling family incomes

One week to go: Headteacher Update's 17th National Pupil Premium Event set to hit Birmingham

Calls for universal free school meals grow louder as campaigners hit Parliament

Levels of child poverty will not improve by 2030

School staff resort to buying hygiene products for children in poverty

Cost of school uniforms begins to fall

'Appalling' – £7,400 free school meals cap has not increased in six years

Eight in 10 primary teachers are buying items for pupils in need

One in five schools now operating food banks as cost of living bites

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