Disruptive behaviour and boredom have been banished from a school's lunchtime through an innovative initiative redeploying support staff. Dr Alan Marr investigates Once the part of the day dreaded by many staff members and children, lunchtimes have been transformed at some Lancashire primary schools thanks to a 'Positive Lunchtimes Initiative'. Now funding changes and cuts in school budgets look set to jeopardise the longer-term future of this, and similar, programmes. The initiative aims to reduce the incidence of...