YES: Pauline Robertson, headteacher, Victoria Infant School, Cumbria
Children are bringing to school a whole range of issues that we have gotto address before we even start the learning, and one of them is badeating habits. If a child turns up with only crisps and chocolatebiscuits we will put them to one side and give the child a meal, then Iwould discuss it with the parents. Parents think I'm challenging thepacked lunch that has got the bread and the fruit but I'm not. What wedo with those packed lunches ensures children eat the good stuff firstand finish off with the chocolate.
NO: Paul Sacher, specialist dietician, Great Ormond Street Hospital
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