Sponsorship for school breakfast clubs

​​Request 692933933

​684381396

Following on from FOI number above.

Only Grainville School has secured continued sponsorship for breakfast being provided.

How much does it cost Haute Vallee and Le Rocquier? Provide figures separately for each school for an academic year and the last 3 years.

What government policy exists around providing free breakfast for children in school?

Why should the taxpayer pay for this?

What initiatives exist to educate parents to parent? Feeding a child breakfast, lunch and dinner is a parent not a state requirement 

Why are government funding this?

Response

Haute Vallee

A sponsor covered the breakfast costs for 2022 and 2023 and up to July 2024.

The cost of the breakfast club was paid for from the school budget for the rest of 2024 which totalled £1,039.16.

Le Rocquier

The cost of the breakfast club was paid for from the school budget. The total expenditure for Breakfast Club in 2024 was £6430.23. 

There was no breakfast club in operation during 2022 and 2023. 

The remaining questions are statement or a request for comment. Freedom of Information is a mechanism to enable access to information held in recorded form by a Scheduled Public Authority, rather than to pose questions requiring comment, opinion or speculation. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

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