From Health to Hard Times: Fairness and Entitlement in Free School Meals After Neo-Liberalism

Jo Pike

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-58266-9_16

From Health to Hard Times: Fairness and Entitlement in Free School Meals After Neo-Liberalism

Jo Pike

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Abstract

Following the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in the UK elections of 2010, the then Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that plans to extend a pilot scheme to provide free school meals for children in primary school would be abandoned. The previous Labour Government’s pilot scheme was implemented between 2009 and 2011 and extended free school meals entitlement in Wolverhampton (UK) and provided universal free school meals for all primary school children in Newham and Durham (UK). These pilot schemes replaced previous eligibility criteria, where pupils were entitled to free school meals if their parents claimed ‘means-tested out-of-work benefits (such as Income Support) or Child Tax Credit (and not Working Tax Credit) with an annual income of no more than £16,190’ (Kitchen et al. 2013, p.1).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Neo-Liberalism and Austerity
Subtitle of host publication	The Moral Economies of Young People’s Health and Well-being
Editors	Peter Kelly, Jo Pike
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	15
Pages	295-311
Number of pages	17
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137582669
ISBN (Print)	9781137582652, 9781349844982
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58266-9_16
Publication status	Published - 19 Nov 2016
Externally published	Yes

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From Health to Hard Times: Fairness and Entitlement in Free School Meals After Neo-Liberalism

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