May I recommend to West Sussex County Council a very good consultant for healthy eating and exercise in schools ("Anger at cost of meals advisers", Argus, May 2) - common sense.
This consultant is excellent value - it costs nothing - and can often be consulted 24 hours a day.
Eight years ago, in the absence of this common sense consultant, particular county councillors voted to axe hot school meals to 64,000 primary-aged children in 242 state schools, made 550 dinner ladies redundant, ripped out school kitchens and dining areas, wilfully ignored statutory guidelines on hot meals and began selling off school playing fields.
Eight years on, this common sense consultant is still not being consulted by County Hall when it comes to the statutory requirement of providing children with a hot school meal - especially in winter.
Instead, at further taxpayers expense, the county councillors have continued to retain the services of a competitor to common sense - uncommon stupidity.
- Richard W Symonds, Lavington Close, Ifield
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