Nursery World - Panel takes on school meals

A Government-appointed panel of experts who will set new nutritional standards for schools met for the first time last week. The Schools Meals Review panel will provide advice for a 'major revision'

The Schools Meals Review panel will provide advice for a 'major revision'

of school meals. This will include new health specifications for processed foods to ensure that school meals contain less sugar, fat and salt.

The panel's chair, Suzi Leather, a former deputy chair of the Food Standards Agency, said that standards for school food should be 'the best we can do, not the most we can get away with'.

She will lead a panel of dieticians and nutritionists, headteachers, governors and catering managers, as well as charity representatives and observers from key Government departments. Together they will advise the Government on foods or ingredients that should be restricted or removed from school meals, and on the cost implications of using fresh ingredients.

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