School Food Standards: updating the legislative framework (Easy Read)
Introduction
Eating healthy food at school helps children to
• concentrate
• learn
• thrive
From September 2026 more children will get free school meals.
This is part of the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England.
Not enough children are getting the food they need to be healthy.
The government want to change this.
These meals will be healthy and not full of sugar.
We want to update our guidance to make this happen.