To be perfectly honest mate I'm not sure who makes the decision around suppliers for food packs; i.e; whether there are a list of approved suppliers or not and if so, who approves them.
My understanding is that there is government guidance on what food packs should and should not contain although I haven't looked into it myself as we've not gone down that route.
From what I can see, these packs that have used by Primary Schools and like Secondary Schools, some are controlled by the Local Authority and some (like mine) are controlled by the Governing Board of the School.
In Secondary, we're being told to make the call on the best way forward individually as a school (basically the Senior Leadership Team) so I would imagine it's the same guidance in the Primary Sector.
For vouchers, the individual schools have made that call as to whether to go down this path, so I would imagine this is the case with the schools that have chosen food parcels.
It was obvious what was going to happen when you give a private company £15 and ask them to put a pack together that you're going to get nowhere near £15 worth of food.
Seriously though mate, watching the BBC News isn't good for you.
ITV mentioned the school meals review this morning, they did a good job and managed not to turn it into a Rag arse licking session.
They mentioned England Footballer Marcus Rashford and that he was one of numerous high profile people putting pressure on the government which is how it should be reported IMHO.
Thanks again. With that overall haphazard system it is not easy to see the size of the problem or how bad all parcels are. Anyway it seems it is under review, let's hope it gets sorted. My nephew used to get his dinner money from his mum, buy a free meals token off any one of of several kids, get a good meal and save the difference for watching City. I think that will always go on.
Anyway the BBC. I remember 'Listen With Mother's and when we got a TV we had the treat of Bill and Ben, Andy Pandy and others. The TV had a tiny screen and l can remember sitting at the front of several of my dads mates all huddled round this tiny screen watching the 1955 Cup final. The ITV came later and it was received via a box on top ot the TV.
So my connection to the beeb goes back a long way.
From the 60s on l travelled a lot and the World Service was a vital link with home at times listening on a crackle box in some far flung and horrible place. So l had this loyalty for many years but its has deteriorated in recent years as it chased ratings and dumbed down. The sports department is awful as it tries to be populist chasing teams in red having lost most other sports coverage.
I very rarely watch any live TV (City excepted) but the one l do watch is Breakfast. I wake early each morning and l don't want to get out of bed on a cold dark morning. I want my news for the day and no way do l want Piers Morgan and his lightweight programme. So l watch the decent parts of the news but the cost is the sports particularly with Silly Sally.
I am pretty much confined to the house especially since Covid so l watch a lot of TV using my Firestick and with Freeview l pick and choose and l see some good stuff including BBC - documentaries, HIGYNFY, David Attenborough and dramas from home and abroad (currently watching the early series of the excellentFrench programme Spiral. Various programmes on a wide range of music. Not a sniff of a soap opera, dancing and cooking competitions with their false hype or the dreadful reality shows.
But their sports coverage is awful in so many ways, bias being the worst.
