18 July 2025, 09:59

By Charlotte Hill OBE

Holidays should be a fun time away from school, but for children living in low-income families, summer is anything but.

The summer holidays are almost here. Closed schools mean no breakfast clubs and no free school meals, and so parents and carers must cover the extra costs of having children at home. For those already on tight budgets, the additional financial burdens can be unmanageable.

Today, The Felix Project, London’s largest food redistribution charity, releases shocking findings that 67% of teachers in England expect at least one child in their class to experience hunger during the summer holidays because their parents or carers cannot afford to feed them.

We had over 9,100 teachers answer the survey. In total 50% worry that up to three children in their class will go hungry, 13% worry that between four and six children would be affected; 2% said up to 10 children and what was really alarming was that........

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