Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is planning to focus on children's food for his next TV series.
But a spokesman for the chef said the concept was still embryonic and newspaper reports that Oliver would be training a number of school cooks in deprived areas were premature.
The appeal of the idea is clear: Oliver has been an outspoken critic of school meals, which he has blasted for being "outsourced to businesses which have to make a profit... so they end up being made of rubbish."
Oliver's comments stimulated the Local Authority Caterers Association to challenge him to produce a meal as good as those entered for its School Chef of the Year award for the same cost.
Meanwhile, Oliver's Fifteen restaurant, set up to turn youngsters on the dole into cooks, turned in its first profit in September.