An Otago principal says she is not surprised a school lunch provider has gone into liquidation after the company was only given $3 per meal by the government.
The Libelle Group — one of the three nationwide providers of the new school lunch programme — is being liquidated by Deloitte.
It was contracted to deliver about 125,000 lunches daily by Compass Group New Zealand, including about 25 schools in Otago and Southland and about 5000 students.
East Otago High School principal Helen Newcombe said although her school was part of the programme she was unsure if the Libelle Group provided lunches to her high school.
She had received no communication from the overarching School Lunches Collective.
But she said she was not surprised…
