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August 16, 2023 12 mins

Costs and delivery of Ka Ora, Ka Ako, the healthy school lunches programme, have been much discussed in recent weeks.

Kate McNamara wrote a piece New Zealand Herald about the value for money of the school lunches programme.

The cost of free school lunches is up to $325 million a year and best estimates are that we’re feeding fewer than half the hungry school children in New Zealand.

Co-Chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa Professor Boyd Swinburn wanted a chance to put his assessment of the programme to us and joined Kerre Woodham.

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