Member

We need a system to know how many schools comply with the school food standards. There is little evidence available, but the figure could be lower than 25%, according to research quoted by Henry Dimbleby in Serving up children’s health from the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity. We do not know quite how bad things are, but we know they are bad. There is a lot of anecdotal evidence from parents that the food offer to their children, particularly at secondary level, is poor. Unless we do a proper review, we will not have the evidence on which to base policy on this important contributor to children’s health, so I recommend the actions in this group of amendments.