There’s no such thing as a free lunch for schools – but bring on the Toynbee Glee Scale for Ofsted | Letters

Jess Hindes says any new government planning to increase free school meals needs to pay for that, Yvonne Williams extols the benefits of further education, and Dr Helen Care suggests implementing a glee scale for schools Polly Toynbee’s suggestions about bringing joy to the education system through increasing the provision of free school meals and breakfast clubs are nice enough (The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back, 29 February). However, none of this will bring any improvement unless a new Labour government does the really essential thing of reimbursing schools the full cost of providing meals. Continue reading...