Free School Meals Work Wonders

That the Parliament welcomes the research from the University of Hull which praises the pioneering initiative of Hull City Council three years ago when it introduced free healthy school meals to all primary schools and notes that the research confirms that children are better behaved in class and are eating a higher quality of food at home as a result, the researchers say it has “worked wonders” and the city has the highest uptake of school meals in England yet, incredibly, the new Liberal Democrat council administration is considering scrapping the scheme which has the backing of the Westminster education secretary, Alan Johnson MP, who said, “For the council to be considering scrapping the free school meals just as its success is being proved by this study is perverse”.