Free school meals offer under review

THE free school meal offer to children in Wales is under review, the Welsh Government has confirmed.

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At the moment all primary school-aged children are eligible for free school meals regardless of household income.

Once they go on to secondary school they are no longer entitled to this offer, which then depends on their parents’ income, even if they receive Universal Credit.

Currently, their household must earn less than £7,400 a year to qualify.

Some school leaders have questioned the fairness of children from high-income families receiving free meals at primary while those from lower-income families at secondary are not.