The Labour MP is worried that poorer children will miss out on free school meals despite them being made available for all infant pupils from next month.
In his letter to the education secretary Nicky Morgan, Mr Field warns that some schools will be providing free school meals on a ‘first come, first served basis’ because they do not have the capacity to cook meals for all their pupils. This could mean that large numbers of poor children go hungry.
He also raises a concern that schools will no longer register pupils as disadvantaged when infant meals are universally free, which could have an adverse impact on support for these children through the loss of Pupil Premium funding.
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