The IU councillor, Fermín Tejero, has asked the Junta de Andalucía to annul a planned increase in the cost of school dinners.
According to Sr. Tejero, the price of school meals now stands at €4.50 per day, which works out at a 60-cent increase of the daily rate.
“At moments when the inter-annual IPC (RPI) is showing negative figures, this increment represents a 15.4% one,” he explained, adding that, “The cost of school meals, between 2006 and 2009, has grown by 43%, whilst the accumulated IPC in Andalucía during the same period has risen only by 8.7%.”
In other words, the cost of school meals has far outreached the corresponding increase in earning. In fact, in the meantime, many parents now find themselves out of work and having used up all their social welfare benefits.