A healthy diet is important for a range of reasons, and this is particularly true for children as they grow. The UK government has several policies that are designed to improve children’s diets, the most well-known of which is probably free school meals (FSMs). This has been in the news a lot of late — with London trialling the rollout of free school meals to all children in primary schools in the city.
Rarely in the spotlight, and certainly the lesspublicised cousin of FSMs, Healthy Start has existed since 2006. Its focus — just like FSMs — is improving child nutrition, but it often gets forgotten. This can seem to be true even for government — between 2009 and 2021 the value of Healthy Start payments didn’t increase.
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