Are “home lunches” still a thing at your children’s school?

[Gladla]

When my DDs (now late 20s/early 30s) were in primary school they used to have 3 options for lunch, school lunch, packed lunch and home lunch. For home lunch the parent would collect them at the start of lunch take them home, feed them and bring them back at the end of lunch. By the time they were primary 6/7 lots of the kids would use the home lunch option to go to the cafe in the village on Fridays.
We didn’t use them often but my parents would take my girls for a home lunch about once a week. They were also a very popular option on the day of the Christmas party where lots of the kids would go home to get changed or in primary 5 when they went swimming most of the girls would go home at lunch to dry their hair.
I was chatting to my DD today who has a 5 year old and I asked if her school had home lunches as I thought it would be nice for me to take my DGD out. She said nope that’s not an option!
I was a little shocked. I understand that there are significantly less parents who are around in the middle of the day and safeguarding has gone up, but it seems fairly innocent if someone if collecting the child from and returning them to the office.

AIBU to be sad this option doesn’t seem to exist?
Did anyone else’s schools have home lunches or still have them?

Teacher here: I have only know one child, who had a lot of issues, being allowed home at lunch-time. She often didn't come back or came back really late. Teachers have enough to do at lunch time (detentions, marking, prepping lessons) without having to take the home lunch children to the office to be collected. It would be a complete nightmare.

Yes this makes sense for a small school in a remote area with parents permission. We live in a larger village though on the outskirts of a city and schools round here would not allow a child to leave alone in the middle of the day. Children in y5 and 6 are allowed to walk home alone though at the end of the day if parents have said they can.

I was able to do home lunches with my daughter in the early 2000s. We did a mixture of home, packed lunches and school dinners. I lived next to the school so it was very easy for me. Be sad if they're not a thing anymore generally.

I used to go home for lunch sometimes when I was at infants school in the 1980s. At secondary school (1990s) we were also allowed to go home/leave the school premises at lunchtime. I used to sometimes go home for my lunch hour as I lived nearby.