Parents in Wolverhampton may be hit with a 50 per cent rise in the cost of school milk under plans due to be approved next week.
Council chiefs are recommending that the cost of providing children with milk each day be raised from £4 a term to £6 a term – the first price increase since 2002.
The decision has been made because of rising food prices and the cost of transporting the milk to schools.
It comes just days after the Express & Star revealed that the cost of school meals will also rise by 10p each if the plans are approved on Tuesday.
Currently 90,000 children drink whole milk while a further 10,000 drink semi-skimmed.
The council’s schools chief Councillor Jill Fellows, who ousted former mayor Trudy Bowen from her seat in Bilston North in May’s elections, said the plans had been put into place by the previous administration.
She said: “It was recommended by the Labour group before the elections and we are looking into it. No decision has been taken yet but we are due to meet on Tuesday at our cabinet resource panel to discuss it. The situation with milk is the same as with the school meals, it is the cost of inflation.”
Children who receive free school meals will not be affected by the increases.
The price of a primary school meal in Wolverhampton will be pushed up to £1.60 while a secondary school dinner will cost £1.70.
3 Comments
when you are buying bulk ingredients for meals the cost would be much lower councils are making profit from school meals and milk
my sons school charge 4pound a turm not to bad if u have 1 but if u have 3 kids in school and they will not let u sent drink in with then unless its for dinner time
My daughter as stopped having milk. On a few occasions the milk had gone sour and the taste
was awful.