Efforts to remove Turkey Twizzlers from English school dinner plates aregathering pace. The Government finally revealed last week exactly how itwill spend its 220m school meals improvement fund.
But, while the national policy is now in place, the difficultiesinvolved in changing school meals in practice are starting to emerge.Two surveys published last week make particularly worrying reading foranyone expecting a speedy improvement.
The first, a survey of local education authorities by The Guardian,found that in 17 areas there was no authority-wide school mealservice.
Instead, individual schools were being left to source mealsthemselves.
The second survey, by Unison, looked at schools involved in privatefinance initiatives and found that 27 per cent did not have kitchenscapable of cooking a meal using fresh ingredients.
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