The School Food Trust said that all schools should continue to strive for good quality food and do more to encourage an increase in the number of children buying schools meals.
The call comes after research by consumer charity Which? revealed that just 45 per cent of children have school meals, a figure the organisation claims is 10 per cent less than is needed to maintain low costs.
Freedom of information requests sent out to 154 councils in England revealed that the average meal price across all schools in the 2009/10 financial year was £1.93, a rise of 5p on the previous year, below the current rate of food inflation.
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