Who introduced the 'free milk for schools' campaign?

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When was it introduced, who by (party wise) and when was stopped??

Answer 1

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After the passing of the 1906 Education Act Local Education Authorities were empowered to provide free school meals. In 1921 this had been extended to free milk. However, an investigation by John Boyd Orr (published as Food, Health and Income in 1937) revealed that there was a link between low-income, malnutrition and under-achievement in schools. Following the 1945 General Election, the new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, appointed Ellen Wilkinson as Minister of Education, the first woman in British history to hold the post. Wilkinson had long been a campaigner against poverty and in 1946 managed to persuade Parliament to pass the School Milk Act . This act ordered the issue of one-third of a pint of milk free to all pupils under eighteen.

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Informative answer, thank you!

Answer 2

Hillary Clinton

Answer 3

im not sure! havbe you tried Goggling it that wya you dont loose 5 points! they stopped the milk when i was in about year 2 so too young to rememebr!

Answer 4

Margaret Thatcher stopped it. She was nicknamed "Thatcher the milk snatcher".

Children under 5 still get it for free.

Bring it back!!!

Answer 5

I don't know, I know I got it in Kindergarten and that was 1961.

Answer 6

It was a Dept of Agriculture initiative.

Answer 7

Pretty sure it was FDR, during the depression. To give malnourished children the nutrition they needed and to prop up the price of milk so the dairy farmers would not go out of business.

Hilary Clinton continues in the same vein as FDR, caring for the less fortunate.

Answer 8

Clement Atlee when he was Labour PrimeMinister in 1946

Answer 9

it's wasn't free milk.

are you a socialist?

someone had to pay for it.

Answer 10

Free School Milk was introduced in about c1948 - very soon after WW2. The then Labour government had created the Milk Marketing Board which ensured a fare price for dairy farmers for their milk. All UK produced milk was sold through the Milk Marketing Board.

Milk was given to all school aged children from age 5 to 15 in those days.

Margaret Thatcher as minister of education abolished free school milk in the 1970s in the Edward Heath [Tory] UK.gov of c1970-72.

Free school milk has not since been reinstated and is unlikely to, unless the people of Britain vote for a Socialist government, which they seem not to want.

The present government, lead by the Blair/Brown axis, is not Socialist, it is at best described as pink-Tory, or pale blue-Tory.

I started school aged 5 in 1946 and left school aged 15 in 1957 and enjoyed free school milk every single day of my school days. Result, I grew up fit and healthy. The last time I was ill was in 1962 when I was 20/21 with tonsillitis. Otherwise only good health. I am now retired.

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VOTE LABOUR FOR A SOCIALIST BRITAIN.

Answer 11

The milkman.

Answer 12

Oh Clive you're such a Merlot Marxist. Give it a rest. What else did Attlee do- Windrush- start of the flood was it not?

Why on earth did he import aliens unwilling and unwanted by his own party?
Why did Thatcher have to attack everything with the axe?
Why it was because another Leftist ruined the economy and we had the Winter of Discontent where no dead bodies were removed.

Remember when we were about to go with our Wilson Labour begging bowl to the IMF?

Rose tinted glasses are indeed the spectacle of choice for the Merlot Marxist.

Vote BNP for a Nationalist Britain and kick all the also-rans and bed-wetters out!

Answer 13

1948..... Thatcher wanted all of the working class to have bad teeth and bone calcium deficiency as part of her Victorian Values, so stopped it.

Answer 14

labour back in the 60's and the tories stopped it under maggie.