GovWire

Overview

The government is committed to offering a free breakfast club in every primary school in England.

This will build on the national wraparound childcare programme and national school breakfast programme.

We will be inviting schools to take part in an early adopter scheme. The scheme will seek to test and learn what works ahead of national rollout.

The early adopter scheme

The programme will invite up to 750 state-funded schools in England with primary aged-pupils to work with the Department for Education (DfE). It will focus on how breakfast clubs can be delivered in a way that:

• builds on what is already happening in schools
• meets the needs of parents
• ensures children start the day ready to learn

DfE will also work with the sector, including local authorities and childcare providers, businesses and charities to consider the best approaches to delivering breakfast clubs in schools.

Further information on how schools can take part in the scheme, and the model the scheme will follow, will be shared in the second half of the autumn.Early adopter schools will be confirmed by early 2025 and the scheme will launch in the summer term (April 2025).

Register your interest

Schools that wish to find out more about becoming an early adopter can sign up using the early adopter breakfast clubs expression of interest form to be notified as further information becomes available.