Pupils Snub Free School Meals
30 August, 2011
Pupils in Wales would rather go hungry than eat free school meals because of the stigma of poverty, AMs have found. The average take-up of free secondary school meals is 68%, the assembly’s children and young people’s committee inquiry discovered.
The findings are the outcome of an inquiry into child poverty by the cross-party committee. It found some children would rather forgo a meal than risk humiliation from peers.
It also found that the aspirations of children in poverty are the same as those from better off families when they are seven or eight years old, but by 10 or 11 their aspirations are significantly lower.
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