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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Simon Rogers

Free school meals compared to local children in poverty

School meals
Pupils choose their healthy eating food options at Ysgol Deganwy in Conwy, North Wales. Photograph: Christopher Thomond

Children in poor families are entitled to free school meals — but do they get them? The figures suggest they don't . For this dataset, we've compared the percentage of children in each local authority in workless households (courtesy of Donald Hirsch) with those on free school meals from the Department for Children Schools and Families. The bigger the gap, the more kids are missing out.

DATA: Free school meals compared to poor local children

• Can you do something with this data? Please post us your visualisations and mash-ups below or mail us at datastore@theguardian.com

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