{"id":175747,"date":"2025-06-11T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175747\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:24:10","slug":"new-school-rule-in-england-kicks-in-and-millions-of-parents-will-save-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175747\/","title":{"rendered":"New school rule in England kicks in and millions of parents will save \u00a350"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_uniform.jpg\" alt=\"The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too. \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The government has announced it is &#8220;capping&#8221; the number of branded school uniform items, saving families up to \u00a350 a year per child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The change was confirmed in the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/labour-party\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour Party<\/a> government spending review on Wednesday. The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too. From the start of this term, 750 schools will receive funding to deliver a free breakfast club, reaching more than 180,000 children and 70,000 pupils from schools in the most deprived parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It is also establishing a long-term Crisis and Resilience Fund worth \u00a31 billion per year, including Barnett impact, to provide preventative support to households as well as assist them when in crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/uk-households-rush-hoard-physical-31830682\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE UK households rush to &#8216;hoard physical cash&#8217; with millions warned<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It is also providing an additional \u00a31.6 billion per year by 2028-29 to continue the expansion of childcare entitlements for working parents. It is also investing \u00a3410 million per year by 2028-29 to expand Free School Meals in England to all children with a parent receiving <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/universal-credit\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Credit<\/a>, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty by the end of the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In response, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/conservative-party\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservative Party<\/a> MP Mel Stride says the chancellor has &#8220;completely lost control&#8221;, describing her funding announcements as a &#8220;spend now, tax later review&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;She knows she will need to come back here in the autumn with yet more taxes,&#8221; he tells the Commons, with shouts of agreement coming from behind him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;She presented herself as the iron chancellor, but what we have seen is the tinfoil chancellor,&#8221; he added on Wednesday as he gave his instant reaction to the speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He goes on to call her &#8220;flimsy&#8221; and ready to &#8220;fold in the face of the slightest pressure&#8221;, referring to the government&#8217;s latest winter fuel payment U-turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;She is weak, weak, weak&#8230; these spending plans are a fantasy,&#8221; Stride says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,2266,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}