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The council’s school catering service provides more than 60,000 hot meals to children at over 350 schools.

Every Wednesday in 43 Waltham Forest primary schools, caterers cook delicious ‘free from the top 14 allergens’ dishes for all the children to enjoy.

Khan, who received free school meals as a child, has stepped forward with an emergency £135m to help 270,000 primary schoolchildren in London receive free school meals from September 2023.

The Public Sector Catering Expo will include an exhibition of over 100 suppliers as well as a lively speaker programme and informative cooking demonstrations.

The Liberal Democrats would initially support both primary and secondary schoolchildren from families on universal credit before expanding the scheme to every primary pupil.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a £130m emergency scheme to help families with the rising cost of living by ensuring that every primary schoolchild in London will receive free school m

And he admitted that the likely cost of implementing an expansion of UIFSM was a significant factor in the decision.

Speaking at the start of LACA’s Main Event in Birmingham yesterday (July 5th), he said that the DfE announcement that Universal Infant Free School Meal (UIFSM) payments would rise from £2.41 to £2.

Nearly a quarter of a million parents and carers were surveyed as part of the 

The biggest annual school meals event will highlight the reluctance of the Government to address the funding and recruitment issues that LACA believes are putting the service under threat.