Schools in England must be compelled to offer pupils healthy food, not junk

School food has suffered at the hands of politics and economics for almost 50 years Almost a generation has passed since Jamie Oliver’s four-part Channel 4 documentary series Jamie’s School Dinners exposed the unhealthy reality of the food served to pupils at lunchtime, including – notoriously – fat-heavy, meat-light Turkey Twizzlers. It proved a shaming and effective intervention. His ensuing Feed Me Better campaign led the then prime minister, Tony Blair, to pledge to make school lunches mo...

By Denis Campbell Health policy editor