Little Callum, 5, was made to sit outside his headteacher’s office with just a bread roll and a glass of water for lunch after his school refused to accept dinner money from his mum.

Parents at Longmoor Lane Primary School are asked to pay their child’s dinner money on a Friday for the following week, but the school apparently refused to accept the £9 payment from Callum’s mum when she tried to hand it in at the end of the school day, telling her she was "too late".

Sheila Slater, the boy's grandmother, told the Liverpool Echo: “It says in the school newsletter that the children’s dinner money has to be paid on a Friday but it doesn’t say what time.

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“My daughter hadn’t forgotten all year but last Friday she forgot to take it in with her in the morning. When she went to pick him up at 3.30pm she went to the office but the headteacher said ‘you’re too late.’

“She said ‘it’s still Friday’ but she said it had to be in by lunchtime.”

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Young Callum was left "confused and upset" by the incident, which saw him forced to eat alone outside the head teacher's room.

His grandmother said: “They gave him a brown barmcake and a glass of water. Callum was so upset and he was saying ‘what have I done?’

"He was being punished for something he hasn’t done and we want to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

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A school spokesman said: “We have apologised to the parent and the child for any upset and confusion caused and taken steps to make sure the system for payment is communicated consistently in future.”

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