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Article: Heads win fight to keep food vending machines in school.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2004
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Byline: JASON BEATTIE
HEADTEACHERS have successfully lobbied for schools to be allowed to keep vending machines selling sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks.
The Government was under pressure to ban selling junk food in secondary schools amid concerns about rising levels of obesity and fears that companies were targeting children.
But the plans have been dropped following protests from heads who claim vending machines help reduce truancy.
If pupils are denied access to crisps and drinks at school they will leave to purchase them outside, heads have told ministers.
This would not only increase truancy rates but would have ...