Free school meals
An excellent initiative from the Scottish Government to improve and encourage healthy eating by young kids.
However, the government will not be allocating extra money to fund the roll-out of the initiative.
It expects councils to find the money from the funding settlement already agreed.
Like all the best and easiest initiatives, someone else is paying for it. Presumably it will be funded through further cuts in services (aka efficiency savings).
5 comments:
Well I hope all you Comhairle comfy arse employees are prepared to accept an even lesser pay increase to fund this initiative in 2010.
The councils are in open revolt - and who can blame them.
C'mon SNP now deliver on your promise :-)
Concordat signed by Councils late last year seems to me to be their agreement to this.
Alex Macdonald as a Vice President of COSLA was also one of the signatories to the Concordat - I would say that that leaves a presumption that our Council would be aware of this possible new service which was titled "Free School Meals"!!
hahaha!
anon 8.46 in the real world clowncillors would act normally for things like "signing on the dotted line".
Except with our inept bunch of idiots who cannae string a decision together without changing it! Next election cant come soon enough!
Is free schools meals really an excellent initiative to promote healthy eating? Or, at least, is it cost effective?
So EVERY child, regardless of how well-off their parents, and regardless of how wonderfully healthy their home meals are, now gets a main meal free of charge?
Sod it - I personally think we need a true 'Nanny State' for situations like this; school nurses pick up on any fat, unhealthy kids (let's not be too PC about the terms used...), or any child who brings 'crap' into school in their lunch boxes, and their parents get - literally - picked up on their parenting deficiencies, and are shown the errors of their ways - regardless of what it takes.
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