Anna Taylor
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And those, of course, have a big overlap with ultra processed foods.
The proposed standards go a long way to address some of the really big gaps in the current standards, I think.
A lot of their success will now rest on the consultation landing where it currently is and not being eroded in terms of its ambition in the coming months.
That's really, really important.
But also this wider package of monitoring being really important.
There are also outstanding funding questions for small schools when you don't have a critical mass of pupils involved.
Eating in the canteen, you can't get to those economies of scale.
And small schools really struggle to provide the meals that they should be providing within the funding that is available.
So there are wider things that need to be in place for this to be a full success.
But this really does feel like a big milestone.
Not explicitly, but I think, as I say, the ambition is to really maintain high uptake of the meals.
And so quality will really come into that.
I mean, the other aspect of quality also, of course, is around sourcing.
And the government has an ambition to shift the public procurement of food with a goal of getting to 50% of that food being either locally procured or to higher environmental standards.
As yet, those rules, government buying standards, are not applied to schools, but we know that there's ambition.
79% feel that they will not be seen to seek help from health care.
Care for the size of a person.