Increase in pupils eating school lunch
21 February, 2011
The number of pupils eating healthy food at school has seen the biggest year-on-year percentage point increase since the height of the school meals revolution.
The annual survey of school lunch take up for the 2009-10 year, carried out by the School Food Trust and the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), shows that take up of healthy school lunches has increased in both primary and secondary schools.
The official statistics show that, in primary schools, the proportion of children eating a school lunch rose from 39.3% in 2008-09 to 41.4% in 2009-10, a 2.1 percentage point increase. Secondary schools saw a 0.8 percentage point rise from 35% in 2008-09 to 35.8% in 2009-10.
It means that an extra 320,980 pupils are now eating a healthy lunch every day at school, compared with the 2008-09 year.
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