CYP Now - Policy & Practice: Policy into Practice - Healthy eating must gobeyond school meals

When Jamie Oliver and his Feed Me Better campaign handed their petition to Downing Street with almost 300,000 signatures, we knew healthy eating was finally at the top of the news agenda.

Thanks to Jamie's work and that of many other organisations, ourchildren now have a better chance of having the choice to eat morehealthily in schools.

But it's not just up to our schools to educate children aboutnutrition.

Throughout the children's services sector we are well placed to getchildren and, more importantly, parents thinking about healthy eating.From nurseries, childminders, out of school clubs to healthprofessionals we all need to deliver the message to families thathealthy eating doesn't have to stop when children leave the schoolgates.

There are developments underway. The Government's announcement of anincrease in spending on school food ingredients to 50p and 60p per childin primary and secondary schools respectively, is a long-awaitedstep.

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