Education officials say they have been sent a range of feedback on new school lunches, but the Ministry of Education has not maintained an official record of it.
RNZ asked how records were kept, to balance negative and positive feedback, after the lunch-overhauling minister David Seymour said: “We’re getting a lot of feedback from principals who actually say they believe that their children think that the food is better than the previous offerings”.
“Given the well-publicised challenges experienced by schools/kura in the rollout of the school lunch programme, it is expected that the majority of feedback we’ve received were concerns about the delays in delivery, special meal labelling and quality control of meals,” the Ministry of Education told RNZ.
