School meal debt owed in Edinburgh totalling £64k will be wiped by the city council to ease the cost of living for the hardest hit.
A one-off £100 payment will also be given to the 8,832 free school meal entitled families in the capital as part of the support package agreed by councillors on Thursday (August 25).
The costs will be covered with £1,212,000 unallocated cash from the 2021/22 budget, with £128,000 being set aside for to further alleviate school meal hardship in the coming year, which a report noted is 'subject to audit'.
