A number of schools across New South Wales have banned birthday cakes from being brought in by students over 'healthy eating policies'. Greta Public School in the Hunter Valley and Wollondilly Anglican College in Tahmoor have both banned students bringing birthday cakes into class. Birthday cakes have been banned in a number of schools across New South Wales over health concernsLast year, a number of schools cancelled the birthday cakes due to COVID-19 restrictions and kept the ban in place. Wollondilly Anglican College also said cakes were 'causing concern' and didn't fit into the school's healthy eating policy. This makes it difficult to promote our healthy eating policy amongst the junior years', a newsletter read.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2021 00:39 UTC