Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries

Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries

Poverty and precarity
Child welfare and youth services
Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy
Education
Schools and pre-schools

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. During the cost-of-living crisis, schools and nurseries have had to step beyond their educational purpose to offer free food to families through food banks. This book explores how these food banks operate, why families use them and how they affect children’s participation and wellbeing. Drawing on case studies of 12 primary schools and early years settings across England, it examines the impact on family wellbeing, home-school relationships and staff. The authors argue that the situation will remain unsustainable if this welfare work continues to be unfunded and unrecognised, raising a significant question of who should and who can be responsible for alleviating child poverty.

Bradbury, Alice
Vince, Sharon

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96855

Policy Press

Bristol, 2025

Upload By Nurma Harumiaty

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

PDF

English

DOI
10.47674/9781447375548
ISBN
9781447375524, 9781447375548, 9781447375531

Poverty and precarity
Child welfare and youth services
Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy
Education
Schools and pre-schools