News • Children's Food Campaign
Campaign success! Free School Meals safe for now
The absence of the propsed cut to Universal Infant Free School Meals from the Queen's Speech is being hailed as a victory by Sustain, Jamie Oliver, School Food Plan Alliance, other food campaigners, and parents.
Ben Reynolds, Deputy Chief Executive of Sustain, commented on the victory, "After a hard month of campaigning by a whole host of food and childrens' charities, caterers, chefs and celebrities, we are pleased that the Government have given up on pushing this unpopular policy proposal through. This will be welcomed by parents across the land, particularly the hundreds of thousands who are struggling and whose children are not otherwise eligible for free school meals. The vast amount of support that has come out for school meals during the election shows that politicians should sit up and realise that good food matters to people and is a vote winner. Moreover that politicians should be putting food policy higher up their agendas as something that they have the power to influence for the benefit of people's health, the economy, and our environment."
Other campaigners have also welcomed the developmetns, including Jamie Oliver, School Food Matters and the Children's Food Trust.
Sustain runs the Children's Food Campaign which champions children's rights, parent power and government action to improve the food environment children grow up in
Published Wednesday 21 June 2017
Children's Food Campaign: Better food and food teaching for children in schools, and protection of children from junk food marketing are the aims of Sustain's high-profile Children's Food Campaign. We also want clear food labelling that can be understood by everyone, including children.
