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Coronavirus: Schools expected to deliver food parcels when more pupils return

Schools will be expected to make food parcels available for delivery or collection instead of using the national voucher...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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School kitchens’ ‘nightmare’ over planning for pupils’ return

School kitchens face a planning “nightmare” for the return of pupils, with uncertainty and concern over numbers, food availability,...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Revealed: Edenred sued government over tender-free contract

The under-fire company that runs the national free meal voucher scheme took legal action against the government almost six...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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DfE ‘can’t prevent’ schools buying half-term meal vouchers

The government’s refusal to roll out the free meal voucher scheme over the May half-term break is meaningless because...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Edenred’s national voucher scheme contract worth up to £234m, new documents reveal

The company running the government’s free school meal national voucher scheme was aware before its launch that as many...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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How the government’s free school meals voucher scheme is leaving children without food

“I’ve got nothing. No milk, no bread, no food, nothing.” That was the voicemail message a school received from...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Aldi joins national free school meal voucher scheme

The supermarket chain Aldi has joined the government’s national free school meals voucher scheme. Vicky Ford, the children’s minister,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Thousands of pupils with ‘no recourse to public funds’ to get free school meals

Children usually denied free school meals because of their parents’ immigration status have been granted temporary eligibility during the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE urges schools to stop checking swamped free meal voucher website, as system labelled ‘farcical’

Schools are being urged not to revisit the government’s national free school meal voucher website unable to cope with...

John Dickens
John Dickens