SNP pledges free school meals for ALL primary pupils in Scotland if reelected
dailyrecord.co.ukJohn Swinney on the first day of the party's virtual conference. It signals the start of what promises to be a long and hard fought election campaign before voters go to the polls in May 2021.
Swinney said the extension of free school meal provision - which would begin in August 2022 - to all pupils would help the country tackle child poverty, which has grown markedly over the last decade.The education secretary laid the blame at the door of the UK Government, claiming its welfare reforms had left too many families struggling.In a prerecorded speech to party members, Swinney said: “The callous cuts to welfare imposed by the Conservatives are bad enough. "But we now face a tsunami of child poverty if the Tory Chancellor imposes a second wave.
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