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PARENT FURY
OVER SCHOOL
DINNER HIKE
Hampshire County Council are increasing the price of school dinners by over 5% - almost twice the rate of
inflation – from April.
The hike means that the cost of eating a cooked meal at school has soared by 50p since 2005,
when the charge was just £1.50 a meal. A parent with 2 children who eat school dinners will now
have to pay almost £800 a year.
“I don't understand how the County Council can just keep putting the cost up again and again,” said one
Gomer parent. “They must be completely out of touch to think parents can just absorb the cost a time like
this.” In neighbouring Portsmouth, meanwhile, the cost of school dinners remains unchanged at £1.70.
Ken Thornber, leader of Tory-run Hants
County Council, defended the rise
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