Campaigners decry failure to extend free meals and budget of £250 per state school to teach healthy eating

The government’s new food strategy offers a “paltry” budget of £250 for each English state school to teach healthy eating, and ignores most of Henry Dimbleby’s plans to improve child nutrition, campaigners say.

They say that with children being fed microwaved and cold meals by schools struggling with the cost of living crisis, a stronger response is needed.

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