Local Lib Dems have slammed the Conservative Government for ending a fund which helped small schools provide free school meals.
Special cash grants for nearly 3,000 of the smallest infant schools will not be renewed. Bonus funding helped infant schools with fewer than 150 pupils meet the pledge to provide free hot meals for every pupil.
The schools, many of them in rural areas, needed extra cash because their size meant they could not buy bulk food cheaply enough to fit their budgets. In 2015/16 the fund paid out a flat fee of £2,300 to 2,867 schools, coming to £6.5m in total.
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