to think the free milk in nursery/school should be Organic?

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And full fat. We have semi skimmed???

YABU, Semi skimmed is fine it still has as much calcium and protein as full fat but less fat. It would be much to expensive to have organic milk at nusery and it is not really any beter than non organic,

I overheard one (pregnant) mum say loudly to another as she lit up outside our local toddler group, "Well I buy mine organic milk as it's so much better for them." Maybe not smoking while you're expecting them would give them better health...

I do buy organic milk but I'm a sucker for all that stuff. I wouldn't expect it from a nursery. But I would prefer them to have full fat.

Urmm..as public money is in short supply, I think I'd rather we bought some respite care for Riven and other carers. Or maybe some of those extra nappies Mr Cameron promised.

Free organic milk for kids is a bit Marie Antoinette to my mind. There's a lot of suffering going on out there.

Seeing as how no one responsible for the economic bank fall out has had to pay back a single bonus, (well, in the US and Canada, not sure about the UK) I'd like to see them pay for it. But now we teeter into the ridiculousness. (Actually, where I live, we don't get free anything at nursery, preschool or higher)

The credit crunch was but the precipitating factor of the economic crisis: it is far to simplistic to suggest that even more additional taxes bonuses are the solution. But even if it were, surely it would go general Government coffers for use according to policy priorities, not be earmarked for one DoH scheme.

Also, there isn't really a link up to respite care, as that is funded by each Council.

Tax-payer funded milk has been provided since the start of the welfare state (Mrs Thatcher reduced the age limit for provision in about 1971), and it is funded form the Department of Health budget.

I've asked a couple of times above, and will try again, to anyone whom supports the expansion of this scheme:

What would you cut form the DoH budget to fund this expansion?

GotArt, I get your point, but organic milk in schools for free is a luxury.

As we do not test living cows for BSE I would say that organic milk is the safer & healthier option so YANBU.

Why, Beaaware, do organic cows not get BSE? (Genuine question)

DS1's primary has no money for the reading recovery teacher next year but still insists on cooking organic school dinners .

Wow - I assumed that some councils gave primary school children free milk. I didn't even realise that I must get free government funded milk in daycare for my 1 year old.

What a complete waste of money. I would have thought they could have found a few pennies for the milk out of the £63.75 they take from me each day's care!

£63.75 they take from me each day's care

They don't get any free milk at my son's school so I would be glad of either organic or not. I would think if you are insisting on organic then you should pay the difference.
I used to be able to claim back a certain amount of milk money for childminded eligible children so it's not just nurseries that can do this

YABU

at the school where i work we give the FULL FAT (but not orgnanic milk). They have it until 7years old i think, and the school starts at aged 3

toerag... I agree that money could be spent better elsewhere, like on TA's. Here, we get no TA's, no milk, just fancy, stupid gadgets to that make teaching easier for teachers and more fun for students... like the $1500 projection camera for my girlfriend's grade one class so she can read to the students while they stay in their seats. She says its so ALL the class can see the book at the same time instead of them sitting on the carpeted reading corner with her holding up the book to them, like in the olden days.

gapbear I do understand, but as the money comes from the taxpayer, you technically are still paying for it, so its not really free.

Four pages on a non issue. Let's take it back further and make sure they get their milk directly and naturally straight from the cow. Anyone on this thread aware that not so many generations ago unpasteurised milk, fresh from the cow was the biggest spreader of tuberculosis.

Let's turn the clock back to when there was no obesity, no sweets, no antibiotics and when very few children reached the age of five and mastitis rather than childbirth was the biggest killer or women.

Free organic milk - good grief!

I complete non isssue! If you are given something free, you choose to take it or leave it-what you don't do is say I want something different for free!!!!