- but a difficult national financial picture means the roll-out is not straightforward, a senior councillor has said.
Pupils and teachers at Acomb’s Westfield Community Primary School, one of two in York piloting the scheme for six months, said it had changed the school day for the better.
City of York Council’s Children and Education Executive Member Cllr Bob Webb said he wanted national support to be an ambition for the new Labour government but national finances made it difficult.
It comes after the pilots at Westfield and Burton Green Primary School, which have seen all children in years three to six get school meals for free, began in January.
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