The Department of Health's Food in Schools Programme includes initiatives to improve the nutritional content of food and drink provided by breakfast clubs, school tuck shops, vending machines and lunchboxes, and a greater availability of water to drink. The pilot projects range in size from ten to 225 schools.
The launch of the projects, which will be evaluated at the end of this year, has been accompanied by statistics showing that nine out of ten children take food to school which contains too much sugar, salt and saturated fat.
Health secretary John Reid announced last week that one million children are now receiving free fruit at school each day and that 77m of new money is being made available to roll out the scheme nationally. It had been operating in four pilot areas with 42m of lottery money from the New Opportunities Fund.
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