School meals smaller and have less meat due to cost, caterers say

Hayley Clarke & Nathan StandleyEducation reporterHayley Clarke / BBCSchool children are getting less meat, cheaper ingredients and smaller portions in their lunches as caterers battle rising costs, the new chair of a school food organisation has said.Michael Hales, incoming chair of LACA, said schools were increasingly having to bridge the gap between government funding for free school meals and the rising cost…