..and we allow a company to starve our free-school meals children for large profit even though taxpayers compensate the company properly.
Free school meals firm with Tory links shamed over GBP30 shopping basket | Metro News
The parents of children who qualify for free school meals have shared pictures of the small amount of food they’ve been given to last them 10 days.
Food parcels have been brought in to replace £30 vouchers given to parents to spend in supermarkets as schools close for remote learning.
But one mum valued the contents of her parcel at no more than £5.22, if bought from Asda.
She was given two jacket potatoes, a can of beans, eight single cheese slices, a loaf of bread, two carrots, three apples, two Soreen Malt Lunchbox Loaves, three Frubes, some pasta and one tomato. The mum wrote alongside the image: ‘Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest.’
Free school meals firm offers very different food at private schools | Metro News
A catering firm accused of providing woefully inadequate free school meal parcels to impoverished families supplies canapés, pâtisserie treats and gingerbread villages to private schools.
Taxpayer funded packages supplied by Chartwells UK are supposed to be worth £30 and last 10 days, but frustrated parents have shared photos of meagre offerings worth closer to £5 if they had shopped at Asda.
The firm said it will investigate the images circulating social media, saying the amount of food in them did not ‘reflect the specification of one of our hampers’.
But its sister company, Chartwells Independent, offers luxurious gourmet food for private schools, including a selection of canapés for Norwich School, coconut, lemongrass and banana leaf wrapped salmon for New Hall school and bouiliabasse at Chigwell School. While these meals will be covered by the fees paid by parents, Cosmopolitan UK journalist Kate Pasola tweeted that ‘Chartwells UK belongs to a parent group which can choose where it profits’. Chartwells is part of the food service giant Compass Group. The group’s chairman, Paul Walsh, was a former member of David Cameron’s business advisory group.
Free school meals firm with Tory links shamed over GBP30 shopping basket | Metro News
The parents of children who qualify for free school meals have shared pictures of the small amount of food they’ve been given to last them 10 days.
Food parcels have been brought in to replace £30 vouchers given to parents to spend in supermarkets as schools close for remote learning.
But one mum valued the contents of her parcel at no more than £5.22, if bought from Asda.
She was given two jacket potatoes, a can of beans, eight single cheese slices, a loaf of bread, two carrots, three apples, two Soreen Malt Lunchbox Loaves, three Frubes, some pasta and one tomato. The mum wrote alongside the image: ‘Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest.’
Free school meals firm offers very different food at private schools | Metro News
A catering firm accused of providing woefully inadequate free school meal parcels to impoverished families supplies canapés, pâtisserie treats and gingerbread villages to private schools.
Taxpayer funded packages supplied by Chartwells UK are supposed to be worth £30 and last 10 days, but frustrated parents have shared photos of meagre offerings worth closer to £5 if they had shopped at Asda.
The firm said it will investigate the images circulating social media, saying the amount of food in them did not ‘reflect the specification of one of our hampers’.
But its sister company, Chartwells Independent, offers luxurious gourmet food for private schools, including a selection of canapés for Norwich School, coconut, lemongrass and banana leaf wrapped salmon for New Hall school and bouiliabasse at Chigwell School. While these meals will be covered by the fees paid by parents, Cosmopolitan UK journalist Kate Pasola tweeted that ‘Chartwells UK belongs to a parent group which can choose where it profits’. Chartwells is part of the food service giant Compass Group. The group’s chairman, Paul Walsh, was a former member of David Cameron’s business advisory group.
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