Our Publications and resources
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The root causes of child morning hunger
Across Scotland, child morning hunger remains a persistent and often invisible barrier to educational equity and social mobility. But morning hunger is not inevitable, it is the result of deep-rooted systemic barriers.
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The importance of secondary school breakfast provision
Secondary school is vital to the long-term life chances of children and young people. Moving through broad general education to the exam years, the outcomes from the four or six years a young person spends in secondary education will set them up for life.
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Supporting Scotland’s special schools through breakfast provision
For pupils in special schools, breakfast provision is about more than just food. It creates a calm, consistent and nurturing start to the day that supports wellbeing, regulation and readiness to learn.
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Breakfast in Scotland’s primary schools
Scotland has made a strong commitment to deliver universal breakfast provision in all primary and special schools by August 2027. This Parliament will be responsible for ensuring that this commitment translates into real, lived change for children and families across the country.
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Annual Report 2024/25
In 2024/25, Magic Breakfast navigated a year of significant change, transforming mornings for hundreds of thousands of children while steering with intention through a shifting policy landscape and rising levels of need. Throughout this period of uncertainty, we continued to prepare the UK for a future where every child in the UK is nourished, empowered, and thriving.
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Nourishing Futures: our strategy for 2040
This overview of Magic Breakfast’s strategy for 2040 sets out a bold and unchartered path, one that not just deepens our impact for the children and young people we support but is led and created by them.
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Briefing on Supported Amendments
Magic Breakfast has worked with Emma Lewell-Buck MP to introduce a number of amendments. This briefing outlines the impact and need for these
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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Public Bill Committee Evidence
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Annual report 2023-2024
Our 2023/24 annual report, ‘Who’s not having breakfast?’, celebrates the journey of our year from September 2023 to August 2024. Enabled by our wonderful fundraising and school communities, we took action to identify, reach and shine a light on the hundreds of thousands of children and young people still going without breakfast.
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Second Reading Briefing: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Magic Breakfast have brought together over two decades’ worth of experience to offer our views on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
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Teacher Tapp
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Magic Breakfast: Measuring and Monitoring survey 2024
Each year, in the summer term, Magic Breakfast surveys our partner schools to understand the key challenges that they and their school community are facing, we call this our Measuring and Monitoring (M&M) survey.
