Campaign to lure a million more pupils to school meals

The School Food Trust wants head teachers across England to sign up to the Million Meals campaign. Schools taking part will be asked to follow a 10-point plan for boosting the number of pupils eating school meals with support from the School Food Trust.

Prue Leith, chair of the School Food Trust, said: "We know eating school food is good for the health and wellbeing of our children. Not enough children are eating the new food and we hope all schools will sign up and become members of our campaign and that together we can make a difference to the lives of children and young people."

Approaches in the campaign's 10-point plan for increasing the numbers eating school meals include maximising the take-up of free school meals and introducing flexible lunch times.

Currently 41 per cent of primary children and 38 per cent of secondary pupils eat school meals.

- www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk.