Labour advises schools and nurseries to consider fruit platters instead of birthday cake
Labour has cracked down on toddlers eating birthday cake, advising schools and nurseries to serve 'fruit platters' instead to 'promote healthy eating habits'.
Guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) recommends parents are discouraged from bringing in sweet treats to mark their child's big day.
The early years nutrition advice, which came in this term, recommends pupils come in with fresh fruit - or even without any celebratory food at all.
5 comments:
They never give up trying to enforce their enjoyment-free dogma of equal misery for all of you. ( No, not us, you! )
40 years ago the headmistress of my childrens' primary school said that lunch boxes should no contain crisps or chocolate. The advice was roundly ignored.
Who knew birthday cake could be a revolutionary item?
Actually I have a certain amount of sympathy with this one. Leaving aside the question of food allergies and intolerances, a relative who is a former primary school teacher has described the one-upmanship of parents vying with each other to send in the most elaborate cakes or doughnut assemblages and the disruption it causes in the classroom on numerous occasions every year.
Having watched an NHS worker make a complete pig’s ear of some vital paperwork while on the phone to the bakery over her toddler daughter’s birthday cake, I wonder how much of it, especially in nurseries, is linked to working mothers trying to assuage their guilt at not being able to provide the once customary after-school party with friends.
One would hope that individual schools and nurseries - or, at a pinch, the LEA, would have the common sense to sort this and explain the problem to parents without the need for government intervention. As it is, though, the puritanical ‘healthy eating’ angle is probably the worst way to justify a ban to an already resentful population.
Jannie - Puritanism for thee, not for me.
DJ - a good thing too, kids need energy.
Macheath - I don't recall coming across the issue as a parent so it all seems a little frivolous to me. I agree though, individual schools and nurseries should sort this out, not government.
I have a glass of red on my bday.
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