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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals |
Free school meals for infants 'set to be scrapped' under Osborne's spending review A good day to bury bad news? Page 36 of the 2015 Conservative manifesto "We will support families by providing free meals to all infants". Guess we'll see what happens. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals |
I never understood why they gave out free means to all infants anyway. Middle class people (including myself) could easily afford them. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals |
I predict they'll bow to Jamie Oliver if it's even a story at all... |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals |
Hooray. My wife's school just spent a shed load of cash building a kitchen to accommodate the free school meals policy (Essex CC closed school kitchens years ago). |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:14 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals | |||||||||
I suspect just stopping the inevitable bullying that would ensue if some kids got their food paid for because they were poor and some didn't. |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals |
Also it's not because a family is wealthy that the kids are well fed and looked after Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals |
There's a 'sledgehammer for a walnut' aspect to it, definitely, but the bare fact is this : bad nutrition as a child is a predictive for all sorts of health problems in adult & later life. Giving all children, even those whose parents could afford it, a nutritionally balanced lunch is considered a fair price to pay for saving the health service more money due to reduced costs in adult health care. There are also the 'social leveling' factors as discussed but it does come down to the fact that well fed children make for healthier adults and it's easier to treat all children the same. It's that simple. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:23 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Government to Stop Providing Free School Meals | ||||||||||||||||||
The children would never know. It's all done behind the scenes these days. |
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