Provide better quality food parcels for children on free school meals

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

The government need to take action on the quality of the school meals provided to low income children during lockdown

Companies are pocketing our public funding and keeping it for themselves at the cost of decent meals for children from low income families, this is abhorrent. How are children expected to learn when they aren’t fed a decent meal? I’m sure you’ve seen the parcels provided across various social media platforms and anyone can see that the amount of food clearly wasn’t enough to feed a child for 5 days.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

The Government has issued guidance to school catering teams and food providers on providing lunch parcels to pupils eligible for free school meals. These make clear these parcels should meet the school food standards. See:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance/covid-19-free-school-meals-guidance-for-schools#providing-lunch-parcels-through-the-school-catering-team-or-food-provider

Guidance on the contents of free school meal lunch parcels has also been produced by the Lead Association for Catering in Education, Public Health England and the Department for Education. See:
https://laca.co.uk/laca-view/free-school-meals-guidance-producing-food-parcels

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Timeline

12 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
27 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 Jan 2021

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