meals

• EDUCATION PROVISION OF MEALS ACT 1906

  • This act provided free school meals for children most in need, and the motive was practical: hungry children cannot learn.
  • These meals were to be paid for by the local rates, and by 1914, over 168,000 children were having free meals once a day.
• MEALS ACT ANALYSIS - FOR

  • Researchers found that the growth of children slowed and body weight often declined during school holidays.
  • This suggests that school meals were an important contribution to the health of poor children.
• MEALS ACT ANALYSIS - AGAINST

  • There was the idea that giving the poor this kind of help at a young age undermined their independence and self-reliance at a young age.
  • Therefore making them grow into adults unable to help themselves is difficult times.