Schools receive no extra funding for meals and the food, staffing costs and the running of the kitchen all have to be financed through dinner money payments.

'Parents are always sent a text on the day they go into debt and this will happen on a daily basis when the school is in session, until the debt is paid.

the rule may not be very pleasant, but such rules are needed none the less. Without rules, no-one would pay and expect a free lunch and it wouldnt be long before the school was in financial straits itself

With hundreds of pupils to look after, the school just wont have the resources to do a touchy feely procedure.

Several months would leave debts over a 100 quid which is fundamentally to schools and their food produce

So the shameful neglect of state education by successive UK governments is the excuse now being used to justify mocking and shaming two young children? Meh. Call me sanctimonious if you must but yeah, I do harshly judge anyone who feels anything but sympathy for these kids.

Shaming them would be forcing them without food not making sure they ate

And the mother? She alone is responsible for these kids being mocked and shamed by taking it to the press instead of paying her bills.

I'm going to judge harshly anyone criticising this school without hearing anything from them, and taking the mother's version as read.

so now its the politicians fault? we are were we are politically because that is who the country voted in, and we cant change that until the next election, you can judge me all you like, as a mother I am judging her and her partner, get your bill paid, its online, its not like you have to scrabble around for a tenner any more, if it takes you into overdraft so be it, and if you have a problem paying it, contact the school, do not ignore texts