Labour U Turn on free school meals - The fastest U Turn in the West?

dailyreferendum.blogspot.com     Jul 25, 2008            

From the Conservative website:Just hours after a national newspaper was briefed that a proposal to offer all children free school meals 'will be included in the [Labour] party's manifesto' for the next election, Ed Balls's chaotic department has denied any such plans exist.A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families – the Government department responsible for this year's exam marking fiasco – said this morning there are "no plans to change existing national policy."Shadow Children's Secretary Michael Gove said:"Ministers clearly wanted to draw attention away from the Glasgow East result and placate the unions. But just hours after announcing an uncosted £1 billion spending pledge on free school meals, they are distancing themselves from their own plan."After the exam marking fiasco, this latest error by... [read full story]                    

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Case study: Free meals 'were too expensive'

telegraph.co.uk     Jul 24, 2008          

Hull became the first city in the country to offer free meals to all local primary school children. The move prompted a huge increase in the number of pupils eating school dinners - but was axed after just three years because...                    

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Free school dinners for primary pupils in £1bn election pledge

telegraph.co.uk     Jul 25, 2008          

Every primary school pupil in England could receive free school meals if Labour wins the next election. The proposals are expected to be agreed between ministers and trade unions this weekend. Union demands for free school...                    

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Primary 'free school meals' call

bbc.co.uk     Jul 25, 2008          

Ministers are being urged to offer free school meals to all primary school pupils in England. A Department for Children, Schools and Families spokesman said it was looking at the results of a free meals pilot in Hull, but had...                    

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More school kitchens on the menu

lincolnshire.gov.uk     Jul 25, 2008          

Up to 40 new school kitchens are due to be built across the county over the next three years after the County Council’s successful bid for £4.416m has been confirmed by the Government. Hot school dinner take-up across...                    

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Trade Unions Threaten Chaos

britishblogs.co.uk     Jul 25, 2008          

A bunch of crazed Leninists are trying to drag the Labour Party back to the bad old days of the 1970's - before Thsatcher saved the nation for hedge fund managers - when we all lived on potato peelings and trade union leaders...                    

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