The government’s programme to promote fruit and vegetables in schools has been hit by an official evaluation that suggests it has made significant impact on children’s consumption. Staff managing the five-a-day healthy eating promotion and fruit and vegetable schemes – Labour’s most important public health scheme to date since the Department of Health imposed a moratorium on the programme. Many people have left for other jobs. The national school fruit and vegetable scheme provides a free piece of fruit or vegetable every day to two million children between the ages of four and six in more than sixteen thousands schools. The total cost of the scheme in 2004-05 was £29 million and expected to be £27 million in 2006-07. The health secretary promised to double the budget for health promotion over the next ten years.
- Is a healthy diet the key to a healthy life?
- How could governments improve the diet of children without spending quite so much money?
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