I’m delighted to see that Southwark Labour Party will be campaigning in the London Borough elections on free school meals for all children. I have supported Labour’s campaign on this in Islington and hope other Labour Parties across London will look at supporting this progressive measure.
Peter John, Southwark Labour leader writes…
This is fundamentally a policy which will help poorer families, by removing the stigma and social barriers which continue to be attached to recipients of free school meals and by offering a healthy and nutritious midday meal to those 1,800 pupils who are already entitled to free school meals but do not take advantage of that entitlement. With a recent study by Leeds university showing that only one per cent of packed lunches taken to school contain the nutritional content that a child needs, the rationale for ensuring that children eat a healthy meal at school could not be stronger.
For more details on this, read the rest of Peter’s article here.
