Delight after Staffordshire school meal prices are frozen

Headteachers, parents and pupils at schools in Staffordshire have welcomed the news that canteen prices will not be rising this year.

Staffordshire County Council has announced that it is to freeze the price of primary, special and high school meals.

Staffordshire is bucking the national trend which has seen the cost of school dinners go up this year throughout much of the country. Prices for meals at primary and middle schools in Staffordshire are to remain at £2.10.

The county's high school dinner prices will remain at £2.20 and the freeze is planned to last until next April, although it will be reviewed each term.

Barrie Scott, headteacher of Cannock Chase High School, said they welcomed the news, and parents would be pleased that their budget wouldn't be stretched further.