The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that although 210,000 children previously ineligible for free meals stand to gain under the new system, 160,000 pupils who would have been entitled to free
meals under the old system will lose out.
«Children will be recorded as eligible for free school
meals who wouldn't have been
under the
old system, but then they will not be eligible when the new
system is introduced next year,» he said.