The Gap Between Free School Lunches and Universal Credit

If you just gave everyone a free school lunch over a 20 year period, Britain would be over £40 billion better off. There's still gaps and there's lack of consistency. Free school lunches definitely would make the food better, more consistent but more importantly, give those young people from poor postcodes much more hope and the ability to thrive. So what's interesting is all the math says invest in the system, treat them all the same. If you've got a school that's 50% school lunches, that's struggling. Genius cooking will happen but only about 70% because the numbers don't. You can't have enough people on the line, you can't fix the equipment