Catering firm Chartwells at centre of free school meals scandal says it will now include breakfast in lunch parcels for poor children - as £24.8bn parent company's links to Tory party emerge
Catering firm Chartwells has announced it will start including breakfast in free school meal deliveries in response to the fierce criticism of its meagre parcels. The under-fire schools food provider has apologised and vowed to raise standards after parents railed against the paltry lunches it was sending their children. Boris Johnson branded the boxes of seven-day supplies 'disgraceful' and told senior MPs the firm had been 'hauled over the coals'. As it attempted to win back confidence with angered families, Chartwells said it would include breakfast at no extra cost from January 25 until schools reopen. The breakfast will include bloomer, bagel, butter, yoghurts, juice, milk, oats and fruit. Chartwells is part of a £24.8billion parent company whose links to the Tory party were today revealed. Until December this year millionaire Conservative donor Paul Walsh was the chairman of Compass and gave £10,000 to the party in 2010, Electoral Commission records show.