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'Knee-jerk' move on school dinners.
(From Northampton Chronicle and Echo)
THE Government has been accused of giving a "knee-jerk reaction" to Jamie Oliver's criticism of school meals with the introduction of a new qualification for dinner-ladies.
Managers of Kingswood Catering firm, which has 29 school contracts across Northamptonshire, fear the move to force thousands of dinner-ladies to retrain may not have been carefully considered.
Education secretary Ruth Kelly is today expected to tell 100 dinner ladies at the Unison school dinners conference in London that they are "unsung heroes" and have been taken for granted for too long.
She is expected to announce that the Learning and Skills Council will retrain 15,000 next year, starting in September with a new vocational qualification.
Julie Belford, Kingswood partner, said: "I think it is a knee-jerk reaction to Jamie Oliver saying that dinner-ladies aren't trained. It is something they reacted to very quickly, possibly without much thought." She added that the training might be needed by some firms but often companies, such as Kingswood, offered a high-level of training ...
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