Nursery World - Free lunch 'not enough' for healthier living

Healthier food has been called for in nurseries, as free lunches are made available from this term for all primary school children in Durham and the London borough of Newham as part of a 20m Government pilot nutrition scheme.

Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum welcomed the pilot scheme but said, 'It is now the pre-school food served in nurseries that needs a makeover. There are no regulations on food in nurseries, and so the reverse happens. They get good food at home but not good food in nursery.

'I think nursery meals should be improved and if we had that, we would be well on our way to our children having nutritious food.'

Mr Fry said that the national curriculum fails to prepare children to care for themselves in adulthood and there needs to be more practical teaching on nutrition.

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