The term free school meal refers to a sum of money provided for individual pupils in schools throughout the United Kingdom to purchase a lunch time meal. For a child to qualify for a free school meal, their family or carers are considered by the local borough authority to be unable to fund a lunch time meal. The borough will then provide a sum of money considered acceptable to purchase a full meal everyday at school for that pupil. Periodical reviews are conducted to assess a child's qualification for this scheme. A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. ...
Problems
Free school meals can be seen as stigmitising to those pupils involved, studies have shown that many of those entitled to free meals do not take them and it can have a negative effect on those that do. Another problem is that not all those children who would benefit from the scheme do not qualify for it. Organisations such as the Child Poverty Action Group have called for school meals to be made free for all pupils to tackle the problems mentioned above. Child Poverty Action Group is a UK charity. ...
The mid-day meal scheme is the popular name for school meal programme in India. ... Nutrition is a science which studies the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. ... This article or section may contain external links added only to promote a website, product or service — otherwise known as spam. ...
References
Free School Meals. Lambeth Borough Coucil. URL accessed on 18th February, 2006.
Campaign for Free School Meals. Child Poverty Action Group. URL accessed on 18th February, 2006.
Will McMahon, Tim Marsh (1999). Filling the Gap: free school meals, nutrition and poverty, 48, Child Poverty Action Group. ISBN 1-901-69825-4.
Feeds |
Contact