Last year there was plenty in the news about Jamie Oliver and his 'Feed me better' campaign.
This year, there's almost nothing about school food in the news. From what I remember, he got plenty of politicians to make distinctly qualified promises to improve school food and, sadly, was pretty much fobbed out and 'politicked' into beliveing that he'd acheived something.
Today, after reading an article online about the same problem in America, it made me wonder what food is on offer in schools throughout the UK:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/...
This would be a great place for anyone who finds it to let us know what food is on offer in your kids school and whether you think it's good enough. So, if you've just found your way here from the front page, Google or an email from a friend, please sign up - it's free and we don't give out your details to *anyone* else.
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The Guardian have picked up on this idea too:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/stor...
This is my favourite quote:
"Tony Blair promised to take action and, within weeks, the new education secretary, Ruth Kelly, announced that an extra £235m would be invested in improving meals over the next three years. A School Meals Review Panel would assess the state of the current service.
Fifteen million pounds of that money went on setting up the School Food Trust"
£15 million pounds and they're aiming for 50p per kid? There's nothing like management to absorb all that spare cash. nice try Jamie, I just don't think anyone could have prepared you for dealing with Government. Sentiment doesn't have any currency over there.
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