Email your local MP to Keep Kids cooking in school!

Jamie’s new school food manifesto calls for the government to ensure that cooking back is put back on the school curriculum for both primary and secondary schools as part of its current curriculum review. Jamie believes that cooking is a life skill and all children must leave school able to prepare a basic range of fresh, seasonal nutritious meals if we are to stand a chance in fighting the rise in obesity and its diet related diseases. He isn’t the only one that thinks cooking is crucial. Several MP’s also agree, in fact MP Zac Goldsmith recently tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to keep cooking lessons in our schools which has already secured support from other MPs from many different parties, but more support is needed if we want to make sure the Government sit up and take notice!

To increase the numbers and get more MP’s on board Jamie’s fellow school foodies at the Sustain Children’s Food Campaign have started their own campaign where you can get in touch with your local MP, check out if they have signed up and if they haven’t and ask them to get their pen out! So do your bit to make real change, and help Jamie get cooking back in our schools, click here to go to the Sustain website and make sure your local MP is on board!

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About the author: Michelle Smith is the School Projects Manager for the Jamie Oliver Foundation.