School Meals
Education and Skills
Written answers and statements, 24 February 2005
Mrs Diana Organ (Forest of Dean, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to involve parents in assessing the quality and nutritional value of school meals.
Ms Ruth Kelly (Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills; Bolton West, Labour)
Parents will be the front line of the drive to improve school meals, with an independent school food trust and tougher standards on processed food introduced in the new school year. Many schools already ensure that children eat healthy school meals. However, parents need to work with schools to improve the quality and nutritional value of their child's school meal. Further information on this initiative will be available in due course.