Parents in South Tyneside have been left feeling frustrated over the new regulations surrounding school Christmas dinners.
Typically primary school pupils are offered a speciality Christmas meal in the run up to kids breaking up from school for the winter school holidays.
The hot Christmas meal provided by school canteens usually includes meat, veg, gravy and all the trimmings of a traditional Sunday roast dinner.
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There’s also usually a festive desert of Christmas cake or a crumble with custard on offer too.
It’s often a festive treat for the children which many look forward to throughout the festive period, but this year parents have been told that children in some schools in the borough can expect a “Christmas-themed hot box” instead.
South Tyneside Council confirmed that whilst the “vast majority of South Tyneside schools are having a traditional Christmas school dinner this year due to restrictions in some schools, one or two have opted to have a hot boxed Christmas-themed lunch so that all…
