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Healthy eating: School meal failings noted
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
11 October 2007
More consultation with pupils and parents is the key to improving the take-up of school meals, Ofsted said last week.
Its report Food in schools: encouraging healthier eating found that the number of pupils eating school meals had declined in 19 out of 27 schools surveyed since the new school food standards were introduced last September. Dining provision and supervision were highlighted as elements for improvement. 'Three of the primary schools visited reported that the skills of younger pupils were poorly developed: they could not manage a knife and fork or make conversation during a meal,' the report said. Breakfast clubs were started successfully in many...
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