In a society that has long debated what it owes its youngest members, a new audit of nearly 400 English secondary schools finds that three-quarters are quietly violating the nutritional standards meant to protect children during their most formative years. The findings, released by Jamie Oliver's Bite Back charity, arrive at a charged moment: the Labour government is simultaneously expanding free school meals to all pupils from universal credit households, making the question of what those meals contain newly urgent. It is a familiar tension in public life — the gap between what institutions p
Three-quarters of English secondary schools breach healthy food standards
Children are being routinely exposed to unhealthy processed foods during critical developmental years, undermining their health and learning outcomes.