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Teachers union calls on Labour to commit to free school meals for all children
Daniel Kebede, then general secretary elect of the National Education Union (NEU), joins a picket line at Regent High School in north west London, as NEU teaching members stage walkouts across England in an ongoing dispute over pay, July 5, 2023

BRITAIN’S biggest teaching union has called on Labour to include a commitment to free school meals for all children in its election manifesto.

The National Education Union (NEU), which represents more than 450,000 teachers, made the appeal as the party’s annual conference continued in Liverpool.

General secretary Daniel Kebede said that, last year, four million children in Britain and Northern Ireland lived in households that went short of food. 

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