{"id":78903,"date":"2025-08-30T09:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78903"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:23:48","slug":"parents-in-england-to-pay-more-for-school-lunches-as-caterers-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/30\/parents-in-england-to-pay-more-for-school-lunches-as-caterers-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents in England to pay more for school lunches as caterers blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LwwJy.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Letters sent to parents acknowledged the additional put on strain on families by raising prices but said price changes were unavoidable. Photograph: Ben Birchall\/PA\" width=\"391\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parents across England are facing higher prices for school lunches as the new school year begins, with caterers blaming the government\u2019s national insurance increase alongside rising food and energy costs.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/parents-in-england-to-pay-more-for-school-lunches-as-caterers-blame-rising-costs\/ar-AA1LwwJC?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68b2c21355784b259481cec8d55b02f2&amp;ei=24\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Parents across England are facing higher prices for school lunches as the new school year begins, with caterers blaming the government\u2019s national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/school-lunch.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78904,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78903\/revisions\/78904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}