PARENTS will save £400 a year under Labour’s plans for free breakfast clubs, the party claimed yesterday.
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said major changes to before school care will also slash half a million days of school absences.
PAParents will save £400 a year under Labour’s plans for free breakfast clubs, the party claimed yesterday[/caption]
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to roll out free breakfast clubs to all English primaries – expanding on the one in seven schools that already have them.
The party claims that parents paying for private childminding will be £50 a week better off and will save £2,000 across the full school year.
Meanwhile parents paying for breakfast clubs will save £400.
Ms Phillipson said: “Families’ childcare needs don’t end when their kids leave nursery: that’s why we’ll put free breakfast clubs in every English primary school.
“We’ll fund our clubs by clamping down on tax dodgers and save hardworking parents over £400 every year.
“Breakfast clubs are proven to improve kids’ behaviour and grades, and get those regularly missing class back into school – giving them a great start to their day and getting them ready to learn.”
Meanwhile, Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry has admitted pupils face learning in bigger classes under Labour’s school tax plan.
The risk of overcrowding could follow an exodus from private schools as Starmer plans to add 20 per cent VAT to fees.
Tories say the levy will see children flood the state sector as some parents will no longer be able to afford to pay.
Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry told GB News: “If we have to, in the short term, have larger classes, we have larger classes.”
She was responding to forecasts saying 40,000 fee-paying children might have to move to state schools.