Headteacher wants supermarket help to tackle junk food

A FRUSTRATED headteacher has called for a supermarket giant to help in his quest to eliminate junk food from school grounds.14-04-2008

Tudor Griffiths, of Kettlethorpe High School, said £20,000 of his school budget was spent each year trying to ensure pupils ate healthily and were not tempted by rubbish. But he said the lure of cheap sweets and treats at Asda, at nearby Asdale Road, was proving too much of a temptation for some children, who were sneaking out at lunchtime to satisfy their cravings.  
He said: “We have removed all our vending machines and introduced smoothies and water coolers, as well as healthy lunches. All this is often at a cost to other things in school like trips and events, so it is very frustrating. “We are lucky in that we don’t have fast-
food outlets on the doorstep, but we do have Asda and I really would like to see them take a more responsible position on this.”Last week the Express revealed shocking figures released by the School Food Trust, which showed Wakefield had the highest number of takeaways and sweet shops per secondary school in West Yorkshire.
The trust hoped naming and shaming the areas providing pupils with the ‘most temptation’, would help persuade schools to close their gates at lunchtime and get councils to stop new fast food shops setting up nearby.
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