This provides parents with greater certainty than dealing with a plethora of different private sector providers of school meals. It is time for politicians to stop horse trading in scant facts and recognise that there is intrinsic social value in direct school meals provisions. A future Labour government should reverse the risk presented by schools opting out of local authority meals services under the guise of ‘choice’ and ‘flexibility’ for individual schools. The current system in England is clearly a recipe to allow teachers to cut costs, private caterers to cut corners and politicians to gamble with our children’s health. A crisis like this one should focus minds (and stomachs) on the risk of outsourced contracts:
http://www.apse.org.uk/briefings/13/13-04%20school%20meals%20and%20contaminated%20products%20containing%20horse%20meat.pdf
Cher Garr
