The Green Party has announced its new election policy for free and nutritious school lunches.<\/p>\n
\u201cSchool lunches are about more than food. They are about investing in our children\u2019s futures, creating local jobs and supporting local food producers,\u201d says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that our tamariki learn better when they are well fed. Every child across Aotearoa deserves healthy, delicious, locally prepared kai that helps them thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why the Green Party is excited to announce that we will restore, extend and permanently fund the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Green Party’s election policy for free and nutritious school lunches will:<\/p>\n
\tRestore the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme, with lunches provided through schools or local providers to meet the needs of their students.<\/p>\n
\tExpand the programme to approximately 400 more schools, ensuring 150,000 more children enjoy a nutritious lunch every day.<\/p>\n
\tFund the programme permanently to provide certainty for schools, wh\u0101nau and local providers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time when more wh\u0101nau are struggling to afford the basics and 1 in 5 children live in households that run out of food, every child should have access to nutritious food.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSlashing the school lunch programme\u2019s funding and removing contracts from local providers cost New Zealanders hundreds of local jobs, left half of meals failing minimum nutritional standards and increased food waste. The cut-price programme doesn’t even have secure funding beyond 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal of a school lunch programme should be providing nutritious school lunches to children, not exploiting Government contracts to prioritise profits and overseas shareholders over our tamariki.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Green Party’s school lunch programme will feed kids and local economies, not the pockets of corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is part of the Green Party’s affordable kai election policy, which will be announced in full next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can afford to feed our children nutritious kai and put money back into our local communities. We can afford all of this and more with a fair tax system, for all of us,\u201d says Marama Davidson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Party has announced its new election policy for free and nutritious school lunches. \u201cSchool lunches are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-575477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}