Dersingham's headteacher Lando Du Plooy explained that poor diets result in poor learning."You can't teach children on empty bellies, you can't make any impact on their teaching and learning if the children are hungry," he told Sky News.
"If the impact then cascades and gets to the children, and we then start churning out fast food, low quality meals that are not healthy for the children, it then creates the whole issue around the obesity challenge that we're trying to tackle, the challenge of unhealthy meals and unhealthy habits that they lead to later on in life."LACA's chairman Brad Pearce has called on the government to help.
"Without an increase in school meal funding the most vulnerable children in our society will go without, possibly, their only hot, healthy, and nutritious meal of the day," he said. "We are also urging the government to raise the FSM entitlement threshold to all children whose parents are on Universal Credit, to ensure that no child misses out on a school lunch.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerA spokesperson for the government said:"We have expanded access to free school meals more than any other government in recent decades, which currently reach 1.9 million children.
Guess that furlough we borrowed for so everyone could sit at home to protect from a virus with a 99% survival rate is really paying off now 🤔
A part of me wonders if the new chancellor is cackling to himself muttering 'what school meals'... annettesjl
But Jeremy Hunt says we're all in it together and the Tories are compassionate. I'm sure he'll be having similarly crap food for his lunch.........🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 fakehonesty jeremyhunt
What worse than what they get from Deliveroo