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The missing element from Luton’s free school meals campaign
No comments on The missing element from Luton’s free school meals campaignThe latest edition of the council’s free newspaper, Lutonline, leads with a front page story about a new council campaign to get more people to claim for free school meals. The story claims that more than 5,000 children in Luton are missing out on the free school meals they are entitled to. So the Council wants to make sure that the number of parents claiming rises. This is a good thing. Over recent years we…
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Luton schools benefit by £3,642,000 from the Pupil Premium
If you want to know why I remain a supporter of the coalition government and the Liberal Democrat participation in it, despite much of the disappointments and awkwardness, it is for things like this. On Wednesday the government published the final figures for the amount of the Pupil Premium paid to each school in England in this financial year. Each school is receiving and extra £488 for each child that they have that gets free…
