Scots school meals 'need shake-up'

Evening Times;  July 18, 2002 ;     341 words ......Scottish Executive panel of experts on school meals has issued a series of recommendations...increase the number of children eating school meals and shift the focus from cost to health...panel also argued that provision of school meals should not be considered as a commercial...

School meals: Do government guidelines make the grade?

Consumer Policy Review;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......asks whether government guidelines for school meals are really working ABSTRACT There is...and nutritional intake of children. School meals are vital in shaping children's food...introduced in 2001, stipulate that school meals must include certain food types in a...

Pupils 'are more alert thanks to good food' New survey shows that school...

Belfast Telegraph;  December 11, 2004 ;     365 words ......report has suggested that good school meals are having a positive impact...Looking for innovation in healthy school meals' report by the Soil Association...Business in the Community, healthy school meals lead to better behaved pupils...

Food: No time to be mealy-mouthed; School meals no longer appear to be...

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Seemingly, that was the fate that befell school meals. With a celebrity chef in the vanguard...into action and everyone rejoiced that school meals were back on the political menu. Fast...hot topics that have carefully eased school meals out of the picture. So is that it? Have...

Plea to keep school meals

Belfast Telegraph;  January 13, 2005 ;     173 words ......Board to use their influence to keep school meals.Seamus Close urged Board members to vote against scrapping school meals - a proposal believed to be under...from parents who feared the loss of school meals would adversely affect their children...

Primary pupils in deprived areas will get free school meals

The Scotsman;  June 4, 2007 ;     289 words ......today unveiled plans to provide free school meals for pupils living in Scotland's most...pilot scheme to provide free, nutritious school meals for primary one to three pupils. The...tomorrow showing how many pupils are eating school meals. Ms Hyslop said: "This is about more...

First minister makes pledge on free school meals

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  March 3, 2007 ;     494 words ......nearly 100,000 children eligible for free school meals within the first year of the next parliament...McConnell gave no sign of any moves to make school meals free for all, a policy so far ruled...been made in improving the quality of school meals and added: "We will in the first ...

School meals need a 'radical change' 'Since 1980 we have seen a gradual...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  March 28, 2005 ;     431 words ......neighbourhoods says a 25-year decline in school meals needs radical change to improve children...with staff from Coventry City Council's school meals service. She said: Since 1980 we have...quality and nutritional standards in school meals. But it's taken 25 years to get to this...

School meals are better say parents.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  March 15, 2006 ;     203 words ......schools in improving the standard of school meals, according to a new study. More than...surveyed in Newcastle, whose children eat school meals, think the quality of these meals is...for their opinion of the quality of school meals. Around 7% of parents in the city whose...

Pupils lose appetite for school meals and healthy eating drive

The Scotsman;  June 8, 2005 ;     542 words ......which show the number of children eating school meals has fallen for the second year in a...revealed that the number of pupils taking school meals has fallen from 49.3 per cent in 2004...is aimed at improving the quality of school meals and encouraging Scots youngsters to...

Free school meals for all pupils, call.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  August 2, 2006 ;     375 words ...Byline: By Zoe Hughes School meals should be made free to every child...children are eligible for free school meals in the North, yet provisional figures...pupils failing to take up free school meals, with 31% of school children in...

Nothing for Wales in pounds 280m school meals package.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......An extra pounds 280m was pledged for school meals in England yesterday - a move celebrity...for dinner ladies and more money for school meals. The row over the cost of dinners escalated...220m in direct grants to 'transform school meals' over the next three years. But no such...

The Saturday essay: who will feed the children at...

Grocer;  August 21, 2004 ;     613 words ......obesity issue has been the reemergence of school meals as a hot policy issue. Nothing to do...difference, and not just for business. School meals are a microcosm of everything facing...and compulsory competitive tendering, school meals have surprised many simply by surviving...

Socialists taste defeat over free school meals for all

The Scotsman;  June 5, 2003 ;     482 words ......defeated an attempt to introduce free school meals for every pupil in Scotland. The Scottish...a technical piece of legislation on school meals to commit the Executive to providing...which called for an expansion of free school meals, without making it universal. However...

SSP puts free school meals back on agenda

Evening News - Scotland;  June 3, 2003 ;     254 words ...A BID to introduce free school meals for all children is set to become...the last parliament over a free school meals Bill. But party colleague Rosie...success The Executive's Education (School Meals) (Scotland) Bill is designed to...