{"id":76111,"date":"2025-06-05T07:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76111"},"modified":"2025-06-05T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:11:33","slug":"charities-welcome-free-school-meals-change-but-warn-more-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/charities-welcome-free-school-meals-change-but-warn-more-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Charities welcome free school meals change but warn \u2018more is needed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38240\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/school-meals-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/school-meals-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/school-meals-360x215.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/school-meals.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/charities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Charities<\/a>\u00a0have welcomed the expansion of free school meals as a \u201cfirst step\u201d towards easing child poverty, but urged the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Government<\/a> to axe the two-child benefit cap as economists warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/charities-welcome-free-school-meals-change-but-warn-more-is-needed\/ar-AA1G6Ed6?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Charities\u00a0have welcomed the expansion of free school meals as a \u201cfirst step\u201d towards easing child poverty, but urged the\u00a0Government to axe the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/school-lunch.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76112,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76111\/revisions\/76112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}