Breakfast Clubs and Housing Costs

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🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Government made a start this week on its manifesto promise to provide free breakfast clubs in every primary school in England. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill got through its first big step in the House of Commons on Wednesday and will give every parent of a child in a state primary school in England the legal right to a half hour breakfast club for their children with food and childcare. Schools Minister Stephen Morgan speaks to Paul Lewis about the plans.

New research form the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, seen exclusively by this programme, suggests more than half of those facing housing worries have been kept awake at night over the past year due to concerns about things like high rents, poor conditions and the risk of eviction. What can be done to help them?

And millions of people who need to file a self assessment tax form have still not done it - and the deadline is less than three weeks away on January 31st. Listen for the Money Box guide on what you need to know.

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researchers: Emma Smith, Eimear Devlin and Jo Krasner Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 12pm Saturday 11th January 2025)

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0:42.5	A new report sets out the anxieties suffered by people who are struggling to pay their housing costs
0:47.3	and have no security in their own home.
0:50.3	There's less than three weeks to go before you face a £100 penalty if you don't send
0:55.0	in your self-assessment form and why some will need to pay tax on nearly two years' profits.
1:00.5	But first, the government has made a start this week on its manifesto promise to provide
1:05.5	free breakfast clubs in every primary school in England. The children's well-being and
1:10.5	schools bill
1:11.2	got through its first big step in the House of Commons on Wednesday
1:14.3	and will give every parent of a child in a state primary school
1:17.7	the legal right to a half-hour breakfast club for their children with food and childcare.
1:23.5	But it is only a start.
1:25.7	Just 750 schools will begin the scheme after Easter. That's less than one in 20 of the nearly 17,000 English primary schools.
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