NE W S R E L E A S E
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2003
STUC Welcomes Scottish Executive's School Meals Announcement as a Step Forward
Rozanne Foyer, Secretary to the STUC Women's Committee, today responded to the Executive's announcement on improvements to school meals in Scotland by saying the following:
"We welcome the introduction of strong nutritional standards on school meals and also the wider proposals around taking a whole school approach to healthy eating, involving the curriculum and consultation with pupils themselves. All of this is a vast and long overdue improvement on what has gone before.
"In particular we welcome the proposals to make fruit freely available to pupils in primaries one and two. This targeted free provision of healthy, nutritional food to Scotland's children is a step in the right direction, which we would like to see extended to cover all meals and all school children."
For further information and comment please contact:
Rozanne Foyer, Assistant Secretary