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<p>The department is investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using
funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve
breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools. The focus of these clubs has been to target
the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s
Opportunity Areas – to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.</p><p>
</p><p>The programme will also deliver innovation projects with the aim of testing
solutions to delivery and access barriers, and enhancing the health and education
benefits. Innovation projects will seek to test out new approaches to enhancing the
health, education or wider socioeconomic benefits and to overcoming delivery and access
barriers.</p><p> </p><p>We monitor management information from the programme on an
ongoing basis and will also review the effectiveness of the programme fully once the
programme concludes.</p>
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