Universal Infants Free School Meals

I read somewhere that some schools are having to take funds from their education budget to fund the scheme. I agree with rose

Those children who need free lunches should continue to have them, but why subsidise those who do not?

Well, it wasn't universal anyway, as it didn't happen in Labour-controlled Wales.

And I also heard that it wasn't universally popular - with the children.
(or school staff.)

Ill thought out, rushed and not that well carried through.

'Ministers are poised to scrap Nick Clegg??s controversial free school meals programme, it emerged last night.

The flagship Lib Dem policy was supposed to ensure all primary school children were given free lunches in their first three years of education.

Tim Farron has responded:

If this goes ahead, the Tories will show they are willing to take an axe to the education budget at the expense of children??s learning.

By scrapping this policy they would take food off the plates of hundreds of thousands of school kids who now benefit from a free hot healthy meal at lunchtime.

The Liberal Democrats fought tooth and nail to get this through in Coalition because we want every child to have the best possible start in life and be able to concentrate in class.

We are really proud of the efforts schools have made to ensure children get the healthy meals they need. In many cases this has seen investment in new facilities and new staff.

The Tories are now going to completely undermine all this progress and, as a result, demoralise school children, their parents and their teachers.

Instead of further investing in our children, the Tories are turning up at the school gate and stealing their lunch money'
I did actually copy this intending to post it yesterday but,as it was a week or so old wasn't sure if it had been mentioned already; I assumed that it was something else being sneakily renaged upon while the press are busy trying to trawl up unimportant stuff about Corbyn. So that's no a cap on nursing home fees, free childcare places, tax reforms for some of the poorer members of society [in an adverse way]to name but a few manifesto pledges that were lies .

And so it continues this relentless pursuit of a small state