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Local MP Backs Commons Bill To Put A Stop To Fat Kid Rot
Lewes MP Norman Baker has lent his support to parliamentary legislation seeking to improve the nutritional content of food provided to schoolchildren. The Bill - moved in the House of Commons today - seeks to amend current law in order to improve the nutritional value of school meals, and aims to introduce legislation requiring all schools to adopt a food policy which provides free fruit to school children and extends children's entitlement to free school meals.
Commenting on the Bill, Norman says:
"I am very happy to lend my support to this Bill. Like many of my fellow MPs - and people in this country in general - I am very alarmed at the current trend which is seeing young people becoming fatter.
"This trend has to be reversed through taking urgent and decisive action. Sadly, the Government is currently dithering rather acting. They would do well now to sit up and listen to some of the excellent proposals in this Bill to improve the diet of schoolchildren - including placing an obligation upon schools to provide food with a higher nutritional content on their menus."
· The Bill would require all schools in England to be required to have a food policy; to provide support for schools in drawing up, implementing and developing food policies; to make permanent the scheme for free fruit in schools and to extend it; to extend entitlement to free school meals, including to breakfasts; to amend the law relating to the nutritional values of school meals; and for connected purposes. The object of the Bill would be to require schools to have a holistic approach to the food provided throughout the extended school day. DfES is leading on it and DH is having input regarding extension of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme