By law, it is up to each municipality to decide whether they want to offer high school students free lunch or not.

Now during the corona pandemic, 8 of the 13 dala municipalities that have upper secondary schools offer their students lunch even though they study from home, this applies to students in municipal secondary schools.

In Ludvika, for example, they started handing out food boxes after the Easter holidays.

- For some students, school meals are the only meal they get in a day, says Monika Fredriksson, head of kitchen at Västerberglagen's educational association.

Changed

Falu municipality is one of those that so far has not offered the students lunch but they have now changed that decision and will start offering food boxes during week 18.

- Research shows that school food is important and we also know that for some students, school food is the only real goal food they get in a day, we want to help students succeed in their studies with this.