Free school meals

• howard mcsweeney1

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  13 July 2013     12:38237297
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  i would be very impressed with gove if he actually pushes this through, some of the reports i have read about the contents of some packed lunches were quite shocking.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/free-school-meals-for-every-primary-school-pupil-education-secretary-michael-gove-joins-the-war-on-packed-lunches-8704861.html
• Guest 725

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  13 July 2013     12:53237298
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  I'd agree with that if they also served dinner on plates and encouraged the children to use knives and forks and not treating them like caged animals by serving grub on a plastic tray like you see in American prisons.
  They also need to change the menu and steer away from combinations such as lasangne and overcooked sweetcorn niblets.
• Guest 710

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  13 July 2013     12:57237300
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  Friday, 1 May 2009
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8028416.stm
  
  Tuesday 22 June 2010
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/22/free-school-meals-health-backlash-cuts
  
  19 April 2012
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17765533
  
  There has been something of a push for free school meals for all on these very pages too.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Terry Nunn

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  13 July 2013     13:00237301
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  Free school meals eh! Best not comment about "Milk Snatcher Thatcher" then!
  
  Plus ça change.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 725

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  13 July 2013     13:16237302
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  Thatcher was dead against the idea of stopping free milk but was forced to.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  13 July 2013     13:23237304
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  philip
  
  the report refers to the "prison style trays" and wants them ditched. there are a lot of things to be sorted such as finding suitable space in schools for much larger canteens and avoiding overlong queues but the main problem will be convincing dave and george to stump up the funding whilst other departments are losing theirs.