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School meals in Scotland, 2008
24/06/2008
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published a range of statistics relating to school meals in Scotland's publicly funded schools.
Some of the main findings are:
- Of those pupils present on the survey day, 47 per cent took a meal supplied by the school
- Of those registered for free school meals under the benefits criteria and present on the day of the survey, 83 per cent took a free school meal on the survey day
- Thirty-seven per cent of all schools provided a breakfast club service to pupils
The survey included those schools participating in the trial of free school meals for all pupils in P1-P3 in five local authorities. The full findings from the monitoring of the trial are due to be published later this year.