The Federation Council commented on the idea of ​​replacing breakfast at school with cash certificates

“We have done a lot to ensure that, on the instructions of the President, all schoolchildren of the country were provided with free hot meals.

I believe that we should not replace (them. -

) with grocery sets, monetary compensation, but in a very short time to work out all the shortcomings that, unfortunately, remain, in the quality of cooking, in the quality of products, "Lilia Gumerova clarified ...

According to her, this work should be aimed at developing correct eating behavior in children.

“We need to follow the path of improving the menu, training specialists and bringing the technological equipment of our school canteens to the correct standards, that is, to improve the cooking process and conduct educational work,” the senator said.

In turn, Valery Ryazansky, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, noted that this initiative can be considered, provided that it is about "medical parameters of refusal to eat."

"This money is given in order to organize hot meals at the school, where they work, so this proposal can be implemented only on the condition that we are talking about purely medical parameters of refusal to eat," concluded the interlocutor of RT.

Earlier, State Duma Deputy Ivan Sukharev proposed to allow parents of students in grades 1-4 to replace breakfast in schools with an annual payment for the purchase of food.

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