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New school dinners for kids as loss-making service to go
The Sentinel
|January 14, 2026
Council says change will prevent price of meals soaring
STOKE-ON-TRENT'S loss-making in-house school catering service is to end in a bid to stop meal prices rocketing.
An independent review found the cost of a school dinner would have needed to rise by more than a third for the city council to break even on feeding children.
To reduce the burden on the taxpayer, the council has identified Chartwells as a preferred third-party operator for schools that wish to take up the offer.
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