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Free school meal entitlement and child poverty in England

Description

Statistics on free school meal entitlement in the current system and the impact on this of the announced extension to all infant school pupils.

Policy areas

Children and families Education, training and skills Welfare and benefits

Update cadence

One-off

Subject area

Child poverty and education statistics

Publisher

Department for Work and Pensions

Published

18 December 2013

Data files

File	Type	Size
Free School Meals And Poverty	pdf	30 KB

Data files last checked: 28 May 2026

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