Russell
Palmer, Political Reporter
The Education
Ministry says 30 suppliers have applied to deliver the
government’s Healthy School Lunches programme to
non-intermediate primary schools next year.
Cabinet
previously decided the schools would join the coalition’s
cheaper $3-a-meal approach from 1 January, 2026.
Last
month, the government put out a tender for suppliers, which
closed on Thursday.
The contract is for delivery to
196 “contributing” schools – which have pupils up to year 6
– that receive the meals from an external supplier rather
than making them at the school, or getting them from a local
iwi or hapū.
The supplier would be announced late
October.
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