P.E.I. school nutrition policy problems [Video]

A recent audit of healthiness of food found an overwhelming majority of English-language schools and half of French-language schools in Prince Edward Island are not in compliance with nutrition policies.

The Office of the Auditor General of Prince Edward Island released its report on Friday. For its study it looked at 21 schools from the total of 56 in the English-language Public Schools Branch (PSB) and two from the total of six in the Commission scolaire de langue francaise (CSLF).

The audit found 95 per cent of the PSB sample schools and 50 per cent of the CSLF sample schools were not in compliance with the nutrition policies from their respective education authorities.

“The PSB and the CSLF have school nutrition policies dated 2016 and 2011, respectively,” the audit reads. “These policies are not based on the most recent version of Canada’s Food Guide published in 2019.”

The report notes P.E.I. had the second-highest rate of food insecurity in the country …