It's not as though the Government didn't know about the appalling state of school meals before Jamie Oliver started raising public awareness.
There has been a plethora of Government initiatives running in the past year, from the Healthy Schools Programme, National Healthy School Standard, and the National School Fruit Scheme to the Healthy Living Blueprint for schools. Yet none of this seems to have made much difference to the vast majority of school pupils. That is because it doesn't seem to have had any impact on the central problem: what schools and education authorities are prepared to spend on meals for pupils.
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