Claim: Giving all children a daily free meal at school improves their results.
Fact-check: Free school meals and educational performance - Full Fact
Verdict: that's the conclusion of a prominent study of a pilot programme carried out a few years ago, although some of its authors have cautioned against it being used to justify the roll-out of this policy nationwide. older studies have pointed in the same direction.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2017-04-07T00:00:00