Joe Lepper looks at how the School Food Trust is now trying to revive the push for healthy school meals by engaging pupils, parents and teachers.
When parents in Rotherham were shown handing chips and fizzy drinks to eager pupils through school railings last year it sent a clear message to ministers that their £477m battle to boost healthy eating among children had some way to go.
Since then the situation has arguably got worse, with pupils increasingly shunning the healthier options brought in as part of an overhaul of school meals, according to latest figures. Last month the School Food Trust announced that take up of school meals for 2006/07 was 41 per cent, down one per cent on the previous year and in secondary schools, take up was 38 per cent, down five per cent from 2005/06.
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