8 Mar 2025

School lunches and potential further cuts

From Saturday Morning, 7:24 am on 8 March 2025
Hot school lunches at Te Puke Intermediate School.

Te Puke Intermediate School says its school lunches were delivered so hot, containers have exploded. Photo: Supplied

An apology and the launch of a nationwide investigation were needed this week after a child received second degree burns from an over-heated school lunch.

And only yesterday a Bay of Plenty school reported lunches being so hot the containers exploded.

ACT leader David Seymour called the Gisborne school where the student was hurt to say sorry and earlier in the week hit back at the critics of the scheme.

But the head of the country's largest education sector union - Ripeka Lessels says it's not good enough and she's got other concerns about whether there will be further cuts in schools.

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