Breakfast Clubs Universal Offer Early Market Engagement Process

Description

The Department for Education is seeking early market engagement on the proposed Universal Breakfast Clubs offer. This programme seeks to establish a state-funded Breakfast Club in every primary school in England, providing both food and childcare. This provision will support the Department's objectives to support children's achievement and help parents access childcare. The Department plans to run an extensive market engagement process in the coming months, giving a broad range of suppliers across a number of relevant markets the opportunity to offer valuable insight into the future development of this programme. This market engagement will run alongside other engagement aimed at schools and stakeholders. As part of this process, we are interested in gathering insight from suppliers and organisations of all sizes in the following areas, including industry bodies: - School food and catering providers - Food producers and wholesalers - Existing breakfast club providers/sponsors or those interested in learning more about supporting the programme - Supermarkets interested in supporting Breakfast Clubs provision - Childcare Providers in the private, voluntary and indepen…

Official publications

• Inclusion Bases: exploring evidence of impact and models.
  Published: 19 October 2026
• Market Engagement - Lot 12 - Free Breakfast Club (ECSC) Framework
  Published: 17 December 2025
• DfE Rapid Market Research Call-off Contract
  Published: 21 November 2025
• Bradford Children & Families Trust - Chairperson
  Published: 20 November 2025
• Digital User Centred Design (UCD) General Capability
  Published: 18 November 2025
• Tackling Antisemitism in Education Innovation Fund - Market Engagement Event
  Published: 16 October 2025
• Free Breakfast Club Programme Partnership Opportunity Open Call
  Published: 31 July 2025
• Achieving & Thriving (A&T) - Lead Creative and Strategy Agency - con_27973
  Published: 17 July 2025
• Tackling Antisemitism in Education Innovation Fund - Market Engagement Event
  Published: 7 July 2025
• Framework Call-Off Awarded Contract- Breakfast Clubs Technical Advisers
  Published: 2 July 2025

Previous and next from Department for Education

• NHS Regional T Level Industry Placement Coordinators 2025 — 17 January 2025
• Breakfast Club Pool of Advisers- Prior Information Notice — 6 December 2024
• Family Group Conferencing Market Work CF — 25 November 2024
• Energy bill validation and cost recovery services for Educational Institutions across England — 29 October 2024
• Media Buying - Crown Commercial Services Call-off for DfE con_26038 — 22 October 2024
• DfE - Education Financial Services and Banking Solutions Market Engagement — 10 October 2024

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