CYP Now - Food campaigners back long-awaited healthy schools rating scheme

A group of more than 30 healthy food campaigners are calling on the government to bring in proposals it made almost three years ago to rate schools on how well they are promoting children's health and combating obesity.

The government's 2016 Childhood Obesity Plan proposed a healthy schools rating scheme to show how well schools are supporting children's health.

But nearly three years on and the scheme has yet to get under way.

The group, being led by the charity School Food Matters and including Jamie Oliver, says almost all parents and school staff support the scheme.

A School Food Matters survey of just under 1,000 parents and other family members, school staff and governors found that 97 per cent want the scheme to be implemented.

A rise in childhood obesity, availability of unhealthy snacks and the poor quality of school meals are among concerns raised by those surveyed.

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