School meals are vital. There’s a national obesity crisis and it is affecting pupils – unless they learn to eat a balanced diet, their health and their lives are at risk.
The Children’s Food Trust has worked closely with the team behind the School Food Plan to help them with the introduction of a new set of food-based School Food Standards and in setting the objective of getting at least 70 per cent of pupils to choose school meals.
Only an estimated 43 per cent of older pupils opt for school meals and while this has increased by seven percentage points over the past three years it is still some way off the plan’s objective.
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