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Article: Food tsar refuses to back free school meals for all children
- Article from:
- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- March 24, 2002
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Scotland's food tsar has angered fellow nutrition experts by
refusing to back moves to introduce free meals for all
schoolchildren.
Gillian Kynoch told the Sunday Herald that she does not believe
making school meals free to all children is the best use of
resources. She also dismissed the idea that the stigma surrounding
free school meals for deprived children prevents pupils from taking
up the benefit.
She said: "Twenty per cent of children are entitled to free meals
and there is a 16% uptake. That 4% who aren't taking them represents
a vulnerable group and there will be all sorts of reasons why they do
not go for a school lunch; it is not necessarily due to the stigma.
We have got to ...