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School children are getting less meat, cheaper ingredients and smaller portions in their lunches as caterers battle rising costs, the new chair of a school food organisation has said.

Michael Hales, incoming chair of LACA, said schools were increasingly having to bridge the gap between government funding for free school meals and the rising cost of delivering dinner for all of their pupils.

It comes after the government said it would expand free school meals, which Mr Hales said was "welcome", but added that more funding would be "essential".

The Department for Education (DfE) said the "fully funded" expansion of free school meals in England was a "historic step to tackle the stain of child poverty"

The BBC's Jim Connolly explains what could be changing.

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