- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
Responding to Jamie Oliver’s revelation that unhealthy food is returning to academies, where the school food standards no longer apply, Children’s Food Campaign Coordinator Christine Haigh said:
“Today’s exposé certainly backs up reports we have been hearing from people on the ground. It’s clear that the loophole created by this Government is going to reverse years of hard work to improve food in schools.”
She added:
“It’s ridiculous that the Government is spending precious public money on a survey of food in academies, when healthy food could be maintained at no extra cost simply by requiring them to meet existing school food standards.”
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For further information and interviews, please contact Christine Haigh or Charlie Powell on 020 7837 1228 or 07870 577934 (Christine) / 07817 746786 (Charlie) or Christine@sustainweb.org / Charlie@sustainweb.org.
Notes to editors
1) The Children's Food Campaign wants to improve children's health and well-being through better food - and food teaching - in schools, and protecting children from junk food marketing. We are supported by over 150 national organisations. The Children's Food Campaign is coordinated by Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming and funded by the British Heart Foundation. For more information, see www.childrensfood.org.uk.
2) Jamie Oliver appeared on BBC Breakfast News this morning to discuss the problem. The story also appears at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15875019.
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