Families in poverty unable to claim free school meals

Rhoda Grant MSP has written an article for the John O Groat journal arguing it is too difficult to feed decent food to all the primary school children in Scotland in a dining room fit for purpose. She goes on to make the startling claim that ,

" children who need a free school meal get one at the moment"

Does Rhoda really believe this? Does she honestly not know that at the moment it is perfectly possible to be officially in poverty yet not qualify for school dinners?

I suggest she takes a good look at the excellent work the Child Poverty Action Group have done on this very subject. It is shameful that those families who are under the governments own official poverty line are not entitled to claim free school meals.