Jamie's helping Lincolnshire County Council match up rural primary schools to pubs or B&B's - anywhere with a kitchen that can provide hot meals. Of course these meals are also prepared with Lincolnshire home grown produce. Oliver said only three of 286 primary schools in Lincolnshire have a kitchen to supply hot meals to pupils. "A year ago we got £220m out of the British Government to help improve school meals. The result is that each school gets £1,200 plus 50p a kid," Oliver said. "A year later I thought it was my duty to make another programme to see what has happened, what we have achieved and what we haven't achieved, and the result is that I found Lincolnshire." Oliver said the fact that so many under-11s in Lincolnshire and 11 other counties are surviving on packed lunches led him to focus his attention on the demise of the school kitchens. "I looked at that £1,200 and thought what on earth is a Lincolnshire school going to do with it, because £1,200 is not going to make much of a change," he said. He said the solution is to use the £1,200, plus 50p per child, to train local chefs to cook school meals and ask local farmers to provide the ingredients. Chefs will be trained by a county council nutritionist and local farmers are supplying cheap, fresh produce, he said. |