The government is considering scrapping the free school meal programme.

Positive benefits from this program include significant academic & behavioural improvements along with a big increase in consumption of healthy food with better behaviour, cohesion, and school moral helping all pupils.

The academic results were astonishing with children in the pilot areas moving ahead of their peers by almost a term.

As a result, the program was rolled out across the country and is having continued excellent results.

Over the longer term scrapping the scheme will prove to be financially counter-productive.