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Teachers join Jamie Oliver free school meals call

Teaching organisations have written to the prime minister, asking for all children in households on universal credit to be given free school meals.

It adds momentum to a campaign backed by Jamie Oliver, who has told BBC News the rule change would help some 800,000 of the "most vulnerable" children.

The government said it had already expanded access to free school meals more than any other in recent decades.

Read the full article at the BBC here.