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Mikey10 said:
Easier to blame the ‘lefty’ teaching unions though - despite the fact they have been shown to be right in every aspect of their analysis during this pandemic so far.

Hanrooster was up to the same thing this morning on Marr and Sophie Ridge - it’s all the public’s fault, guv, nothing to do with the government’s tinkle-poor response since last January.
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It's what happens when you don't invest and insist on lowest cost options (as apposed to best value) for public sector services and provisions - it what Tories do, short term solutions to keep things plugging along rather than investment to increase quality.
 
Diamond Lights said:
Which begs the question, if that's what is provided for £30 where has the rest of the money gone?
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I think you already know the answer to that one.

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Wasn’t the decision to do it this way part of the push from the labour back benches
The conservatives wants to use vouchers but the labour chaps said this way they knew people would get the food...
And I also believe the outsourcing is done by each local authority. Not sure who else would be providing the food as there isn’t an infrastructure for it. These are the school catering contracts
Doesn’t make it good by the way but there are quite a lot of examples where people have been given what is a fair reflection on £30. The example above though clearly isn’t one
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
If I was one of the supermarkets I'd be all over this. Good PR. Access to cheap supply chains and a delivery network already rolling. C.untpass reckoning they've done £30 on that. Do me a favour.
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the retailers are petrified because their damned if they do, and damned if they don’t
Say they get together and offer the service. They will need to man it and provide local logistics. The cost of the goods issued to the person would not be £30 worth though once that cost is taken away (it’s about 15% to do that kind of service). So actually people would get £25 worth of food.... the complaints then would be worse than this
And of course when that company turnover goes up because of this their will be A backlash that their profiteering
I know from my days working in retail to steer well clear of this
 
scaramanga said:
Vouchers.
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They work. Simply put they have controls in place so that certain things can and can’t be brought. The issue is people need to go to the shop to use them. But I believe it’s a fat more effective way of letting families use the money better for their kids
 
Diamond Lights said:
"£30" bag provided by Compass Group as the school meals has been privatised.

Which begs the question, if that's what is provided for £30 where has the rest of the money gone? You could buy all that in Waitrose and it still would come to £10.

Sickening. 6th richest country in the world.
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That’s actually £10.50 worth of food, not £30
It was miss reported due to Twitter rumours
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Wasn’t the decision to do it this way part of the push from the labour back benches
The conservatives wants to use vouchers but the labour chaps said this way they knew people would get the food...
And I also believe the outsourcing is done by each local authority. Not sure who else would be providing the food as there isn’t an infrastructure for it. These are the school catering contracts
Doesn’t make it good by the way but there are quite a lot of examples where people have been given what is a fair reflection on £30. The example above though clearly isn’t one
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On the radio this morning Baroness Boycott, who heads a Food/Poverty charity or something and advises government, said that the government should have put this in the hands of local authorities as they are best placed to work with local providers. The implication being that this is not what is happening.
She did make a fair point about providers being caught out as the expectation (as per government statements) was that children would be at school this term. In practice there was just one day, so there has been some scrambling around to get things set up. Most (she says) are still doing this well.

There are clearly questions to be answered though in terms of how money is being spent by some contractors.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
On the radio this morning Baroness Boycott, who heads a Food/Poverty charity or something and advises government, said that the government should have put this in the hands of local authorities as they are best placed to work with local providers. The implication being that this is not what is happening.
She did make a fair point about providers being caught out as the expectation (as per government statements) was that children would be at school this term. In practice there was just one day, so there has been some scrambling around to get things set up. Most (she says) are still doing this well.

There are clearly questions to be answered though in terms of how money is being spent by some contractors.
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I’ve been told by our schools it’s in the hands of the local authorities
I’ve also been told that at work as we outsource catering across the globe
Either way... the misrepresentation due to social media is quite poor really
Someone tweets 3 days worth of food as £30 worth and it causes a storm
Sorry I’ve edited to add that it’s not the school who told us it was the LA, it was a governor
 
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Bedfordspurs said:
I’ve been told by our schools it’s in the hands of the local authorities
I’ve also been told that at work as we outsource catering across the globe
Either way... the misrepresentation due to social media is quite poor really
Someone tweets 3 days worth of food as £30 worth and it causes a storm
Sorry I’ve edited to add that it’s not the school who told us it was the LA, it was a governor
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I think she meant local councils rather than LEAs. She must have done because she said they could for example partner with local cafes to provide the meals, keeping the spend local and keeping jobs going.
Nice idea but I don't know quite how practical that would be - sounds like it could be a bit hit and miss.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
I think she meant local councils rather than LEAs. She must have done because she said they could for example partner with local cafes to provide the meals, keeping the spend local and keeping jobs going.
Nice idea but I don't know quite how practical that would be - sounds like it could be a bit hit and miss.
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Guess the issues would be paying those cafes
It’s a great idea TBF
 
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