A primary school in Hull has put a ban on any drinks other than water being consumed and parents are said to be in 'uproar'.
One mum explained how St Andrew's Primary School pupils have been told they can no longer have anything but H2O after a ban has been placed on sugary drinks being included in lunches.
Speaking to the Hull Daily Mail, one parent raged: "Our kid's headteacher at primary has now not only issued a ban on juice during the day but now only water with kids' packed lunches due to allergies and dairy allergies.
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"He won't put the allergy sufferers in a different room saying it's penalising them but it's also penalising the children without allergies.
"There is absolute uproar about it. It's not nice to have a child with allergies but instead of upsetting everyone, and like he says it's life-threatening, he needs to make sure the kids who have these life-threatening allergies are in their own safe area to eat what they want.
"We as parents are absolutely enraged. We give our children school compliant juices for their dinners as a lot of our children don't like water. It's like we are back at school ourselves, there's always some daft rule in place."
In a school newsletter that can be found on their website, headteacher Graham Huckstep wrote: "Vast majority of comments on our stance re: water only have been very positive.
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"Parents have added comments about how potentially harmful flavoured water and dilute water can be due to their heavy sugar content. I was also reminded that children can have allergies of flavoured, diluted fruit drinks.
"Indeed, one child in our school did become poorly due to her allergy of the fruit content of a certain drink which her friend had in error brought in to school.We have to be so careful these days - staff and parents need to please keep working together to keep our children safe."
He explained separately that the school had only received three negatives emails about the new policy - which is an extension to the 15-year ban on sugary drinks being consumed within the classroom.
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Mr Huckstep said: "St Andrew's like most schools are developing our 'Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds' approach.
"Reducing sugary drinks and improving attitudes towards healthy bodies is a national project, as you are aware.
"Linked with this is our care of those growing number of children with allergies. Our water policy - instigated on an idea by parents - was initiated 15 years ago."
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