{"id":6736,"date":"2012-11-24T12:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2012-11-24T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:49:50","slug":"free-breakfast-blackpool-school-children-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-breakfast-blackpool-school-children-january","title":{"rendered":"Free breakfast for Blackpool school children from January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Free-Breakfast-for-Blackpool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6737\" title=\"Free Breakfast for Blackpool\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Free-Breakfast-for-Blackpool.jpg\" alt=\"Free Breakfast for Blackpool\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Blackpool primary school children will soon get free breakfast after the town\u2019s council has approved for the same. It is reported that about 12,000 students will get free cereal, milk, fruit juice or toast from the month of January as a part of 3 month trial.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will be extended to secondary school students as well if it is found to be successful, Simon Blackburn, leader of the council said. The council reports that the estimated annual cost for the proposed scheme would be around \u00a32.1m.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn says that provision of <a title=\"Free Breakfast Blackpool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-20402251\" target=\"_blank\">free food to school children<\/a> is likely to improve attendance, behaviour and standards in schools. Children are seen attending class without having their breakfast. Surveys also show that older students take tobacco or alcohol more than their regular breakfast. Hence, the proposed scheme will greatly help to improve child\u2019s behaviour at school, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool primary school children will soon get free breakfast after the town\u2019s council has approved for the same. It is reported that about 12,000 students will get free cereal, milk, fruit juice or toast from the month of January as a part of 3 month trial. The scheme will be extended to secondary school students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6739,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}