This is going to become far more common over the coming years as schools struggle with increasing energy costs.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a few articles come winter about schools having to close parts of buildings due to lack of heating.
School I used to work at had a monthly energy bill of about £12,000 a month, hate to think what it’s like now
School lunch is the only hot and nutritious meal that some children get in a day, but never mind, I’m sure that the billions in public funds the Tories have funnelled to their rich mates will be much better spent on champagne.
Good job we’re spending billions of tax payers money on a jubilee though isnt it…
Embittered pensioners across the UK will be cheering this, sharing their stories about how nobody fed them growing up.
I remember Mock The Week once shared a story like this and said “Because we’re on the BBC, and in the interest of balance, maybe children aren’t actually that hungry / cold?” which made me laugh. How many ethical gymnastics to journalists need to do to paint stories like this as anything other than a fucking disgrace for a modern large Economy.
“Got no money mate” – Slough Council.
*Proceeds to spend 28k on plants for the building.*
Not to worry, they still can afford subsidised meals and drinks at the Parliament for those who are not short of bob or two !!!!!
Yeah, but how much money are the MPs making by ignoring the public needs … UK needs to man-up and make sure only the richy riches get their share. (:/)
Interesting note – according to the gov’ts own report in 2016, kids get around £7.70/day/student in terms of food budget. Prisoners get less than £2. I’m completing a dissertation on the subject and while there’s a *lot* of crappy practise, prisons basically offer inmates enough for reasonable health. How is it that we can spend three times that amount on people who eat *less,* and *still* produce a crappier outcome?
Here we go again…
That hot meal at school could be the only hot and proper nutritious food some kids get.
How are we having a school meal scandal again?
The Tories are cunts, obviously, but I’ve never really understood why a hot meal is necessarily better than a sandwich.
Look at what kids in other European nations get for lunch, what we give kids here by outsourcing most of their lunches to companies is cheap garbage that is doing kids far less good than it should. In a perfect world, we would let all kids have free school meals and they would be high quality and packed with nutrition. Instead, we are seeing schools unable to provide anything but the basics and those at the bottom are once again at risk of malnourishment and poorer outcomes as a result, all because the government refuses to step in to fix its own failings.
Me in Canada Slowly watching the UK get as bad as America, on reddit
I thought Brexit meant we will have more money to spend on our health and education system.
12 years of Tory rule and this is what happens.
Vote.
This country is big time fucking fucked. Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, Japan never recovered from the bubble burst of 1989 and never sacrificed a good nutritious lunch.
We need to get our shit together.
The problem is the way free school meals is currently operating due to the botched universal credit rollout. It means all students are protected as they move from one phase of education to the next i.e. primary to secondary, as well as being protected to the end of their current phase of education. It sounds great in theory but what it means is a very very high percentage of those free school meal students no longer actually require those meals. For example you could be unemployed for 2 months in 2017 but as of today you will still get free school meals for your child even if you now earn £100,000. The rollout protection has now been extended to 2023. To compound this many school canteens are now privately operated and therefore profit is the main aim. This means that instead of free school meals students being given a good sit down hot meal they are allowed to purchase whatever they like with their allowance. For example little Timmy could use his entire allowance on a drink and a waffle. Many students use their allowance to buy sweets for their friends. The number of fsm students with iphones, designer clothes and their parents showing up in brand new suvs is horrendously high.
What’s wrong with sandwiches, I have them every lunchtime sometimes dinner as well
Let’s not forget the parties at No 10 .
They had budget to buy a special fridge to keep the booze chilled.
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This is going to become far more common over the coming years as schools struggle with increasing energy costs.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a few articles come winter about schools having to close parts of buildings due to lack of heating.
School I used to work at had a monthly energy bill of about £12,000 a month, hate to think what it’s like now
School lunch is the only hot and nutritious meal that some children get in a day, but never mind, I’m sure that the billions in public funds the Tories have funnelled to their rich mates will be much better spent on champagne.
Good job we’re spending billions of tax payers money on a jubilee though isnt it…
Embittered pensioners across the UK will be cheering this, sharing their stories about how nobody fed them growing up.
I remember Mock The Week once shared a story like this and said “Because we’re on the BBC, and in the interest of balance, maybe children aren’t actually that hungry / cold?” which made me laugh. How many ethical gymnastics to journalists need to do to paint stories like this as anything other than a fucking disgrace for a modern large Economy.
“Got no money mate” – Slough Council.
*Proceeds to spend 28k on plants for the building.*
Not to worry, they still can afford subsidised meals and drinks at the Parliament for those who are not short of bob or two !!!!!
Yeah, but how much money are the MPs making by ignoring the public needs … UK needs to man-up and make sure only the richy riches get their share. (:/)
Interesting note – according to the gov’ts own report in 2016, kids get around £7.70/day/student in terms of food budget. Prisoners get less than £2. I’m completing a dissertation on the subject and while there’s a *lot* of crappy practise, prisons basically offer inmates enough for reasonable health. How is it that we can spend three times that amount on people who eat *less,* and *still* produce a crappier outcome?
Here we go again…
That hot meal at school could be the only hot and proper nutritious food some kids get.
How are we having a school meal scandal again?
The Tories are cunts, obviously, but I’ve never really understood why a hot meal is necessarily better than a sandwich.
Look at what kids in other European nations get for lunch, what we give kids here by outsourcing most of their lunches to companies is cheap garbage that is doing kids far less good than it should. In a perfect world, we would let all kids have free school meals and they would be high quality and packed with nutrition. Instead, we are seeing schools unable to provide anything but the basics and those at the bottom are once again at risk of malnourishment and poorer outcomes as a result, all because the government refuses to step in to fix its own failings.
Me in Canada Slowly watching the UK get as bad as America, on reddit
I thought Brexit meant we will have more money to spend on our health and education system.
12 years of Tory rule and this is what happens.
Vote.
This country is big time fucking fucked. Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, Japan never recovered from the bubble burst of 1989 and never sacrificed a good nutritious lunch.
We need to get our shit together.
The problem is the way free school meals is currently operating due to the botched universal credit rollout. It means all students are protected as they move from one phase of education to the next i.e. primary to secondary, as well as being protected to the end of their current phase of education. It sounds great in theory but what it means is a very very high percentage of those free school meal students no longer actually require those meals. For example you could be unemployed for 2 months in 2017 but as of today you will still get free school meals for your child even if you now earn £100,000. The rollout protection has now been extended to 2023. To compound this many school canteens are now privately operated and therefore profit is the main aim. This means that instead of free school meals students being given a good sit down hot meal they are allowed to purchase whatever they like with their allowance. For example little Timmy could use his entire allowance on a drink and a waffle. Many students use their allowance to buy sweets for their friends. The number of fsm students with iphones, designer clothes and their parents showing up in brand new suvs is horrendously high.
What’s wrong with sandwiches, I have them every lunchtime sometimes dinner as well
Let’s not forget the parties at No 10 .
They had budget to buy a special fridge to keep the booze chilled.