{"id":64526,"date":"2022-08-28T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64526"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T17:34:03","slug":"we-need-free-school-meals-for-all-state-school-children-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/28\/we-need-free-school-meals-for-all-state-school-children-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We need free school meals for all state school children now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to be one of those calling for free school meals for all state school children in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/aug\/28\/widespread-child-hunger-cost-of-living-crisis-free-meals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Observer today:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730-550x627.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730-550x627.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730-263x300.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730-768x875.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730-1348x1536.jpeg 1348w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730-351x400.jpeg 351w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_0730.jpeg 1675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why for all state school children? Simply because it is likely that 50% or more will face the risk of hunger and there is no time to sort out a system to differentiate those in most need from everyone else when the crisis is now upon us.<\/p>\n<p>This is urgent and really cannot wait. It is a small issue, and yet with massive potential gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to be one of those calling for free school meals for all state school children in The Observer today: Why for all<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/28\/we-need-free-school-meals-for-all-state-school-children-now\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}