Children are facing a deterioration in school meals due to shortages and soaring prices in the cost of living crisis, a survey suggests.
School meal providers have said they are being forced to cut back on the quality of meals and are using more processed food and poorer-quality meat for student lunches because of cost pressures.
The school food industry has now warned it is “on its knees” because of a mismatch between funding and rising food costs – and said that the situation was only likely to get worse in the coming months.
Speaking to The Independent, one headteacher said that colleagues were even considering the idea of serving just cold food in order to cut down on costs.
