The Children’s Society and 38 Degrees have joined forces to call on the government to make free school meals available to all children in poverty.

The chief executive of the Children's Society says that the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill will make life much harder for millions of people.

The number of children living in vulnerable families in Britain will rise markedly to over one million by 2051, unless critical action is taken, say charities.

Over half of all school children living in poverty in England, 1.2 million, are not getting free school meals, says shocking new research by the Children’s Society.