STUC calls on Scottish government to provide free school meals for every pupil in Scotland
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THE STUC has told the Scottish government to immediately offer free school meals to every pupil in Scotland.
The congress’s women’s committee made the demand today in a letter to Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.
Co-signed by unions, MSPs, charities and youth organisations, it says the government must urgently tackle the issue of food poverty in schools and warns that many are being left behind.
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