Week 3 of corporate slop for our hungry children
School lunch programme: Pies, Pita Pit to be served to students across NZ on Friday
- Pies and Pita Pit meals will be on the menu for students across the country tomorrow.
- The School Lunch Collective recognised the one-off menu ‘doesn’t meet nutritional guidelines’.
- However it said this would allow it to ‘get on top of our food production’.
The Right wing ZB Trolls be screaming, ‘These ungrateful pieces of shit are being given a free lunch and even though that free lunch is disgusting, these hungry little pricks should show some gratitude, no one gave me a free lunch’.
What little charmers those Right wing ZB Trolls are.
This cost cutting measure of feeding our kids using zero love with the cheapest provider is a mutilation of social policy and we should all be ashamed of it…
NZ’s starving students: Hungry kids trailing peers by up to four years in maths, science
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- A major new analysis examining food poverty and academic achievement finds hungry students are trailing their better-off peers in key subjects like maths and science.
- That pattern held even when the researchers adjusted for socio-economic factors – and had not expected it to be so large.
- As the Government’s newly revamped lunches in schools programme starts, the study authors say it needs to be doubled to reach more students.
Kiwi kids going hungry at school are ending up years behind peers in key subjects, reveals a new analysis that also ranks New Zealand poorly for food poverty.
The health researchers behind the just-published analysis argue the Government needs to double the number of children served by its newly revamped lunches in schools scheme.
It’s long been known that hungry students struggle to learn: food poverty has been cited as a big barrier in New Zealand’s scoring under the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa).
But a comparison between that and two other global datasets has allowed a team of researchers to look at the link in greater depth. After analysing food insecurity levels with subject-specific scores, the team revealed a stark trend.
David Seymour’s 3 Buck Chuck is NOT the solution to hungry kids failing educationally at school…
Up to 2000 people could lose jobs over school lunch changes
Up to 2000 people could lose their jobs as a result of the government’s change to the school lunchesfunding model.
Currently up to 156 school lunch suppliers made up of businesses and local trusts feed their school communities under the Ka Ora, Ka Ako healthy lunches programme.
The Ministry of Education says 75 of those provider contracts will end on 24 December after a decision to partner with the School Lunch Collective – run by international company Compass Group.
One supplier, Trust House, will have to let go all 47 people employed to run the programme because it was blindsided by the decision and thought its contracts had been extended to 2026.
…As The Daily Blog pointed out right from the beginning, the real story here was always the corporate welfare ACT was prepared to give an enormous corporation with a terrible reputation for food quality at the cost of local suppliers…
Exactly.
The food is now processed shit from corporations with appalling track record in food service provision…
We know that the largest school lunch providers, Libelle and Compass, have lost significant numbers of schools in the past year, due to performance issues – with schools opting to go with alternative providers.
…plus we are killing off 75 local food suppliers at a time when we have rising unemployment…
‘Massive blow’: 75 suppliers lose school lunch contracts
Thousands of jobs are on the line as 75 suppliers will lose their school lunch contracts at the end of the year.A consortium led by global catering giant Compass Group won the contract to deliver free school lunches to 176,000 students under a new model.The consortium, which includes Libelle and Gilmours, will deliver lunches or ingredients to schools at $3 a pop, down from up to $8.69 under the current model.Suppliers who have missed out on the contract say the new model is a “massive blow” to their business.
…which in turn kills off the local element of the school food programme, the ability for parents to help out and become engaged, the use of local farms and food grown at school as part of the process.
You know, all the community element that makes this programme so important.
What we have had replaced is shit food from corporations with shit records at providing food.
David Seymour has managed to take a great policy and fuck it up.
The greatest audacity here?
We’ve had to cut these food programmes because this Government needed $2.9billion for Landlords tax loopholes.
We took out of the mouth of children to put into the pockets of the rich.
Our children, living in a land of milk and honey, deserve better than this!
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How come Seymour accepted a quote for school lunches from a firm that obviously had not done it’s homework for costings before submitting the quote. The ‘unexpected problems encountered’ are an early warning about future path of this program. Watch them trying to gradually arguing that they need more money to cover expenses unaccounted for. No surprises there neither from the corporation nor the minister who happily accepted the cheapest quote without further investigations.
Looks like rest home food.
but way worse .The shit I had when in hospital a couple of weeks ago was unidentifiable from the same company .
When will Luxon admit that his minister, David Seymour, has spoiled just about everything he’s had a hand in. He’s not an expert in any of these fields, a rank amateur, and it shows.
Cheap and nasty is the best they can do with everything.
Quite obvious they don’t value children, schools, teachers, school helpers, NZders or even NZ.
The fact that we have to be fed is just a nuisance. Some Christian!
On balance I am behind the coalition and their efforts to reign in spending but how anyone can come up with a convincing argument that you can cook and deliver 175000 meals that are good to eat ,healthy and on time they are dreaming. If there are problems now what will happen over winter when snow slows movement of vehicles.
$8 was over the top but $3 is not viable .
The other point Trev is that local contractors and certified kitchens were delivering well. That reasonably wealthy Scandinavian, and many other countries feed their kids with quality meals shows that it is not just about poorer kids. Educationalists, teachers and teacher aids all know very well that hungry kids do not learn and cause problems. Universal feed the kids programmes are the right thing to do.
Cook/chill slops have been problematic for years in aged care and other institutions with Listeria etc. not to mention the gruesome experience of trying to choke them down. My partner when a union organiser dealt with Compass at Whangārei hospital and they were a nasty bunch in the way the workers were treated, penny pinching bastards with a substandard product.
You make some good comments and obviously have some first hand experience. Unfortunately I had to endure compass meals in extended hospital stays . Definitely did not put on weight.
I have just seen Seymour saying it was to hard to do Halal meals .As an excaterer Compass should have factored that expense into the quote. Religious believes may not be in his life, but it is important to those that do and should not be treated lightly.
Compass are arseholes full stop. The day i was told to get to the hospital quickly as my father was dying was the day when my Compass manager tried to pressure me to work the next day. Even a dying parent is not a suitable excuse to not work the next day.
$8 dollars was not “over the top”…that just shows how out of touch people are with the cost of everything now..
A coffee and a muffin costs more…what the children were getting was fresh, locally made, locally sourced fully nutritious food, delivered on time, produced and delivered by passionate locals….with no tin trays or plastic tear tops or reheating required.
$8 dollars was an absolute bargain.
Has Seymour factored in the many km these delivery trucks are clocking up everyday adding the the carbon footprint and wear and tear on the roads…Noooo!
Most of the locals making the food for their local schools all lived within a couple of km, or even closer.
Far more efficient and effective!!
yes the other day the grandkids had pies because the normal shit could not be delivered .A pie costs $5 minimum so where does the extra cost come from as well as the cost of delivery .I think at the end of the year we might just see a massive over run on the cost of this shit .
$8 is not over the top. That’s the cost of lunch at a bakery if you aren’t doing manual work.
These figures don’t take into account the gst the govt recoups. Seymour’s Oliver Twist lunch spend is actually only $2.60.
Jesus Trev you must be unwell or have you employed a new bot to write your posts ?