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Policy documents – Scotland

  • School Breakfasts and the Attendance Crisis in Scotland
    • Format: 443
    • Size: 441KB
    • Approx read time: 10 mins
    • Number of pages: 4
    • Published: January 2024
  • Breakfast: Making Magic Happen – A Magic Breakfast Briefing - Cover image - Two children smiling
    Breakfast: Making Magic Happen – A Magic Breakfast Briefing

    This briefing outlines just some of the key benefits of breakfast and the evidence behind the Magic Breakfast way.

    • Format: PDF
    • Size: 4 MB
    • Number of pages: 5
    • Published: August 2023
  • Funding a better start - Cover image of a child having breakfast
    Funding a better start

    Magic Breakfast is dedicated to ensuring no child or young person is too hungry to learn, and we want to empower schools to deliver for their pupils; at a time of extreme difficulty. Across England and Scotland school leaders are given the authority to deploy Pupil Premium and Pupil Equity Funding, respectively.

    • Format: PDF
    • Size: 4 MB
    • Number of pages: 13
    • Published: August 2023
  • Magic Breakfast Scotland Spring Policy Briefing Series 2022 briefing one

    This policy briefing recommends an approach to integrating childcare and breakfast provision in a way which focuses on delivering for children and young people. This includes providing breakfast provision in every school.

    • Format: PDF
    • Size: 2 MB
    • Number of pages: 20
    • Published: April 2022
  • Magic Breakfast Scotland Spring Policy Briefing Series 2022 briefing two

    The Scottish Government has a commitment to free universal breakfast provision in primary and special schools. This is based on evidence of the impact of free school breakfasts on the performance and behaviour of pupils at school, and a growing awareness of the inequalities in breakfast provision at home.

    • Format: PDF
    • Size: 3 MB
    • Number of pages: 27
    • Published: April 2022
  • Response to call for views on the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill from the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

    Magic Breakfast responded to the call for views on the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill from the Rural Affairs, Islands, and Natural Environment Committee of the Scottish Parliament. Using our experience, we were able to advise on how the bill could better support children and young people at risk of hunger.

    • Format: PDF
    • Size: 237 KB
    • Number of pages: 4
    • Published: January 2022

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3 January 2024


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