Cashless Payment Systems for School Meals

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:54 pm on 23 January 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:54, 23 January 2018

Yes. I'm more than happy to pursue that. My own son's school introduced cashless payments this term, which I have to say, saved on scrambling around for pound coins every week, which is what tended to happen in our house. The important point is this: I don't think it would be right that if there's no credit in a child's account, as it were, that that child should not have a meal as a result of that. There should be a system in place where parents are reminded in a timely fashion as to what the balance is on that account and not find out about it when the account has nothing in it. Certainly, I'll ask the Cabinet Secretary for Education to take this up and to reply to my friend and colleague in further detail.FootnoteLink