EDUCATION chiefs in North Yorkshire have carried out a review of the way school dinners are provided in the county.
North Yorkshire County Council's young people overview and scrutiny committee is meeting on Friday (Jan 25) to look at ways to improve uptake which for the current academic year stands at 41.8 per cent.
This comes after The Press reported last week that less than a third of York's schoolchildren are eating school dinners. The school meal take-up rate in the city has dropped to 32.5 per cent.
This represents a gradual declining trend since 2003/04, when more than 38 per cent of children were eating school meals.
The percentage of primary school children taking a school meal in the city has dropped to just over 31 per cent during the summer term, and has then risen since September to just 32.5 per cent.
* For more details see The Press today.
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