Parents and children benefit from Hemel’s free breakfast clubs

Parents across Hemel have been praising the Labour Government’s new free breakfast clubs.

The clubs, currently running at four primary schools in the town, provide children with a healthy breakfast and activities, such as reading and crafts, before each school day.

Operating at Nash Mills, Chambersbury, Belswains and Yewtree Primary Schools, the clubs give more than 1150 pupils from reception to year 6 access to free and reliable childcare.

One Nash Mills parent said: “The club has been a real help to the family both financially and making our mornings easier.”

Another parent said her son loved having breakfast with his friends and it made him excited to go to school.

A mum of two said: “The club enables me to start work earlier at no extra cost and frees up time for me to be with my daughters at the end of the day.”

David Taylor, Labour MP for Hemel Hempstead, said: “As well as saving parents around £450 a year in childcare costs, the clubs help to improve children’s attendance, behaviour, wellbeing and readiness to learn.

“We’ve heard from many parents who are really pleased with the clubs and we are hoping to roll them out to more local schools in the near future.”