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COMMENT: Schools should not police lunch boxes
Writing for Conservative Home, Andrew Allison, Head of Campaigns for the Freedom Association comments on Lord Nash’s statement that schools have the right to inspect children’s lunch boxes and if necessary, confiscate items that violates the school’s food policy.
In the House of Lords this week, Lord Nash, an education minister, said that “there is nothing to prevent schools from having a policy of inspecting lunch boxes for food items that are prohibited under their school food policies. A member of staff may confiscate, keep or destroy such items found as a result of the search if it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances.”
The comment was in response to a parliamentary question, and follows on from the story that food was confiscated from children’s lunch boxes at a school in Colchester. So why do schools feel that they have the right to behave in this way, and why is the Government endorsing it?
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Source: http://www.tfa.net/comment-schools-should-not-police-lunch-boxes/
