Schools have been tasked with delivering free meals for disadvantaged pupils for many years, but amid the cost-of-living crisis the Mayor of London plans to extend the offer to all primary schoolchildren from September. Several other school-focused initiatives have emerged recently, all of which have merit.
Faced with a shortage of community-based early intervention services for young people with emerging mental health problems, the government has embarked on developing mental health support teams in groups of schools – and appointing school mental health leads – to identify concerns earlier and provide support to reduce the need for specialist help (special report, p27).
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