Yesterday's school dinner. Compliant with the nutritional standards and very tasty it was too. I am planning to post regular pics of school meals as part of the campaign to insist academies and free schools meet the same nutritional standards
Friday, January 6, 2012
Happy New Year - defend the school meal standards!
Posted by Jackie at 11:51 AM 5 comments
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Gove happy to regulate new academies and free schools
Unbelievable! So Gove is absolutely happy to insist that the new academies and free schools he is hell bent on setting up will be forced to teach about the sanctity of marriage but completely free to serve poor quality food that doesn't meet minimum nutritional standards. Have a look at the story in todays Telegraph
Posted by Jackie at 7:32 PM 1 comments
Friday, December 2, 2011
The fight to keep nutritional standards begins
Below is the letter I had published in the Guardian:
Posted by Jackie at 11:03 AM 2 comments
Saturday, November 26, 2011
School Food Nightmare - UPDATE
If we don't defend the nutritional food standards it is highly likely school food will return to the appalling pre 2005 standards.
Dear friends,
I am writing to you all to ask you to stand shoulder to shoulder with Jamie Oliver.
Refusing to insist that nutritional standards apply to ALL schools is a major threat to the school food improvements we have seen since 2005.
I urge you to write a joint letter to Gove calling on him to apply nutritional standards to ALL schools. If he refuses then start a mass campaign. You will get huge public support with medical organizations, health charities, teachers unions and parents lining up to support you.
Regardless of how tough things are for your organizations at the moment I believe the future of the school meal service depends on this one decision and a failure to stand up to Gove now will have dire consequences on the meals our children will be eating.
If you don’t win this then much of the excellent work you have done in the past will be for nothing.
Posted by Jackie at 2:07 PM 2 comments
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I'm dumped!
Well my time as part of "the great and the good" has come to an end. I am no longer a board member or trustee of the School Food Trust. This government has shown no love toward school dinners and was keen to loose many of the quangos that were associated with the last labour government. The only way for the School Food Trust to survive was to become a community interest company that could bring in funding to replace the government funding. it became clear I have nothing to contribute in this shiny bright new future. I am at heart a campaigner not a salesperson. This has been a very difficult transformation for the Trust. Many talented and committed staff are amongst the casualties.
Posted by Jackie at 5:31 PM 4 comments