Sentences with phrase «scrapping free school meals for infants»
But many of the policies in this manifesto — scrapping free school meals for infants, means testing winter fuel payments and removing the triple lock on pensions — could easily be described as vote losers.
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The # 4bn of schools funding over five years - well short of the # 8bn cuts over four years that the National Audit Office calculated in December - is covered by scrapping universal free school meals for infant school children.
An online petition to save universal free school meals for infants has been set up by headteachers following Conservative plans to scrap them
The Conservative's manifesto promises to scrap universal infant free school meals, which cost around # 600 million a year, to be replaced with free breakfast for primary pupils, which has been said to cost # 60 million a year.
The TES said in an article on 11th July that the government was struggling to meet its pre-election promise, after being forced to abandon plans to scrap universal free school meals for infants.
The scrapping of free meals for all infants was meant to save about # 650m, which would have been the majority of an extra # 1bn per year to boost school budgets.