The impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy on dietary quality in English and Scottish primary school children: evaluation of a natural experiment

JC Parnham, K Chang, C Millett, AA Laverty… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
… of UIFSM led to an increase in infant schoolchildren having a school meal. Impacts on key …
Take up of school meals pre-UIFSM was comparable for intervention and control groups (47.4…

[HTML][HTML] Learning from the implementation of Universal Free School Meals in Scotland using Normalisation Process Theory: Lessons for policymakers to engage …

S Chambers, N Boydell, A Ford, D Eadie - Food Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
… NPT is predominantly used to evaluate interventions or new … policy learning around school
meals. Policymakers must … UFSM to encourage them to take up the meal being offered. …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of the universal infant free school meal policy

A Holford, B Rabe - Colchester: Institute for Social and …, 2020 - nuffieldfoundation.org
… In particular we describe how take-up of school meals has … eating school meals, whereas
it increased the take-up among … with other bodyweight reduction interventions that have been …

Children's participation in free school meals: a qualitative study among pupils, parents, and teachers

S Mauer, LE Torheim, L Terragni - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
… pupils’ participation in free school meal schemes in Oslo. The … To promote pupils’ participation
in free school meal schemes… The few intervention studies that have been conducted have …

Universal school meals and associations with student participation, attendance, academic performance, diet quality, food security, and body mass index: a systematic …

JFW Cohen, AA Hecht, GM McLoughlin, L Turner… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
… A primary goal of universal free school meals is to increase school meal participation. Of the
11 … ages 10–12 in an intervention school offering free school lunch (compared with a control …

Let them eat lunch: The impact of universal free meals on student performance

AE Schwartz, MW Rothbart - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… This paper investigates the impact of extending free school lunch … by school because UFM
is a school-level intervention and … increase in meal take-up rate (measured as SLP); that SLP …

[HTML][HTML] Free school meals as an opportunity to target social equality, healthy eating, and school functioning: Experiences from students and teachers in Norway

KE Illøkken, B Johannessen, ME Barker… - Food & nutrition …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
free school meal intervention shortly after the interventionFree school meals can be viewed
as an intervention that … that the school meal increased their liking and intake of healthy food, …

Delivering in‐school interventions to improve dietary behaviours amongst 11‐to 16‐year‐olds: A systematic review

S Calvert, RC Dempsey, R Povey - Obesity Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Interventions to help prevent obesity need to have a key … food consumed by children cannot
be solely offset by physical activity; for example, an average high-calorie meal would take up

Free lunch for all? The impact of universal school lunch on student misbehavior

DT Altindag, D Baek, H Lee, J Merkle - Economics of Education Review, 2020 - Elsevier
… content of the school meals or the school meal take-up rate, … Free School Meal Program
(FSMP), a universal school lunch … On the other hand, the post-intervention dummies for …

A repeated cross-sectional survey assessing changes in diet and nutrient quality of English primary school children's packed lunches between 2006 and 2016

CEL Evans, KE Melia, HL Rippin, N Hancock… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
improve school meals in England. The standards set out in the … Interventions to improve
packed lunches have had some success… . Seventh annual survey of take up of school lunches in …