Healthy food standards in schools ‘eroded’ says Jamie Oliver
Oliver famously campaigned for healthy food standards to be implemented in schools throughout England – a move that prompted the removal of vending machines containing confectionary from schools, and school lunches meeting strict nutritional guidelines.
However, Oliver has now accused current Education Secretary Michael Gove of allowing these standards to slip with many of England’s new ‘academy’ schools not having to meet the standards that Oliver worked to have put in place.
The government have said that it trusts academy schools to implement their own healthy eating standards if they feel it is in the best interests of their pupils, and has no reason to believe that they will not provide meals which don’t meet the current national standards – a comment which was met with a stormy...