Cost Puts School Meals Off the Menu ; Price Rise 'Too Much'

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When pupils in Stoke-on-Trent return to school, parents face paying 50p a week more for each child's lunches. Reporter Jessica Williams talks to one mum who says she will not be able to meet the extra costs HEALTH-CONSCIOUS parent Kym Walker believes eating school meals helps her children maintain a balanced diet.

But the 32-year-old of Brackley Avenue, Burslem, has been forced to revert to packed lunches after facing a Pounds 10-aweek price hike for four of her six children to have meals.

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Cost Puts School Meals Off the Menu ; Price Rise 'Too Much'

From the start of this term, the cost of meals for primary schos ol pupils in Stoke-on-Trent is rising to Pounds 1.85 a day and to Pounds 2.05 for secondary pupils.

It follows a five pence increase in pr...

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