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Article: New GBP20m free school meals pilot.
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- September 24, 2008
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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 September 2008-UK Government: New GBP20m free school meals pilot(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
RDATE:24092008
Primary school children in deprived areas will be given free healthy school meals in a GBP20 million drive to cut obesity and get young people eating more healthily, Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Secretary of State for Children Ed Balls announced today.
Local Authorities in deprived areas are being invited to bid to take part in a two year pilot which will look at the health benefits of free school meals. It will investigate whether free school meals:
* reduce obesity / have an impact on a child's BMI;
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