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SCRAPPING free school meals will make Britain’s obesity crisis worse, leading doctors and charities warned yesterday.
Government plans to drop free meals for infants in the first three years of school were deemed “short-sighted” in a joint letter published in the Sunday Times.
“With one in three children leaving primary school overweight or obese, ensuring a nutritionally balanced school lunch has never been so important,” the letter signed by 40 experts said.
“A free school meals policy could end up paying for itself many times over and reduce the spiralling costs to the NHS of treating obesity and other diet-related illnesses.
“It would surely be short-sighted to cut the funding in November’s spending review.”
Former British Medical Association president Professor Baroness Hollins, British Dental Health Foundation head Dr Nigel Carter and representatives from charities Diabetes UK and the National Obesity Forum are among the signatories.
