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The Moreton school stopping kids going hungry

'Food charity in schools is becoming mainstream across England amid the cost-of-living crisis, welfare cutbacks and entrenched poverty'.

But this comes as no surprise to Emily Morris who's been head of Eastway Primary in Moreton in Wirral for the past seven years.

The study findings from the University of Bristol show an expanding patchwork of school food banks, pantries and similar initiatives have been introduced to support families struggling to make ends meet and feed their children.

Eastway Primary is one such example, with a school pantry where families and others pay what they can afford.

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