95% of parents recognise free school meals benefits – new research reveals
Almost one quarter (23%) of parents with children eating a free infant meal say the main benefit to their child is the greater variety of food they will now eat.
Almost one quarter (23%) of parents with children eating a free infant meal say the main benefit to their child is the greater variety of food they will now eat.
Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, told the NHS to ‘put its own house in order’ earlier this month at the NHS Innovation Expo and ordered national action by NHS England and Public Health En
The Daily Mail reported that schools had been forced to utilise other budgets to subsidise the programme and suggested it could be scrapped, whilst The Telegraph said uptake rates
Experts believe that a tax of 7p per regular sized can of soft drink with added sugar could generate £1 billion per year.
Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, has told the health service to ‘put its house in order’ by ensuring hospitals are not adding to the obesity crisis by serving up unhealthy food, during a
The latest analysis from PHE’s National Cardiovascular Health Intelligence Network (NCVIN) estimates 5,047,891 adults in England are pre-diabetic, also known as non-diabetic hyperglycaemia, meaning
A new piece of joint research reveals that state school students are much less interested in healthy school meals than students in the independent school sector.
The WASH research, which compared fast food chains such as KFC, Subway and Burger King, found that 82% of meals contain more than 1g of salt.
Neel Radia, chair of the National Association of Care Catering, which organises the meals on wheels event, has welcomed the involvement this year of the Lead Association for Catering in Education (
The new figures, extracted from official NHS data, show that there are now 3,333,069 people diagnosed with diabetes, which is an increase of more than 1.2 million adults compared with ten years ago