The Free Breakfast in Primary Schools Scheme

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 9 January 2019.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 2:13, 9 January 2019

I seem to remember some time back, Minister, being pretty positive about the free breakfast scheme when, possibly, some Members weren't, including you, obviously, but water under the bridge. The Welsh Government's free school breakfast scheme has been a flagship policy, as you yourself said, for many of your predecessors for a long period of time, but it has come under increasing pressure over recent years, with a number of councils reducing the opening hours of breakfast clubs and others introducing charges, albeit low-level charges. What support are you giving to local authorities to help maintain access to breakfast clubs to make sure that those children who do really need that nourishment that that breakfast gives them are able to access it in the future?