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Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, has announced £21 million in funding for the School Food Trust over the next three years.
The funding will support the Trust’s ongoing work to drive up the quality of school food and increase take-up of meals through better education for parents, children and young people.
Speaking at the launch of the School FEAST network of 16 school caterers’ training centres at Thames Valley University, Ed Balls said: "Improving the quality of school meals, education about healthy eating and teaching children to cook is one of my passions.
"There are no quick, overnight solutions to improving the way we eat as a nation. I make no apology for introducing tough nutritional standards for school food - there is nothing more important than our children's well-being. I want every young person to be able to make informed choices about healthy eating for the rest of their lives.
"The School Food Trust is at the forefront of improving take up of school dinners. It continues to make massive progress in raising school food quality and supporting local authorities and schools in changing the attitudes of parents and young people."
Why do you find it so hard to spell out the territorial extent of the things you do?
By all means improve the standard of food in schools, that can only do good; but if you want to combat obesity, then you should also bring back sports into schools, which I understand doesn't seem to take place so much anymore.
At school in the 1950's, we not only was taught housecraft, which included cookery, we also had afternoons at what we called the field, where we all played a variety of sports.
Young people don't only need to eat right, they also need to expend energy which should be fun.