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School dinners improving but lacking takersDate: 20/09/2007 09:15:31
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School dinners have improved considerably in nutritional value since new regulations were imposed in 2006, according to the Children's Food Campaign.
Acknowledging that it was still early days and thorough statistical analysis was needed, the group still claimed that for most schools the quality of food offered had gone up, although take-up still had to be encouraged to wean pupils off unhealthy packed-lunches.
In 2006 the Department of Education imposed new regulations on school dinners in a campaign to fight obesity and poor child health, outlawing poor-quality meat, fizzy drinks and crisps, while limiting deep fried dishes to twice a week.
The transition to the new diet, featuring a greater amount of fruit and veg, has been successfully achieved in many schools, but there are still lackings in marketing the health value of the meals to reluctant children, said the Children's Food Campaign.
Richard Watts, campaign coordinator for the Children's Food Campaign, said that "the schools who are doing good work promoting the new meals and explaining to kids properly why they should eat a healthier lunch are actually seeing no drop-off at all".
He added, however that "big work" remained to be done elsewhere, as "the schools that aren't marketing the meals in a new way are actually seeing quite a substantial drop-off in the number of kids eating them".
But alongside his focus on school obligations, Mr Watts claimed that parents were also responsible for failing to encourage their children to eat healthily, allowing many junk-food-filled packed lunches to be taken to school.
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