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As figures show that take-up of school lunches is on the rise, experts say it's more important than ever to maintain the momentum and sustain quality...
Posted: 15 July 2010 | 09:38
The number of children eating school lunches in England every day has risen by almost 321,000, according to new figures. The annual survey of school lunch take-up for the 2009-10 year, carried out by the School Food Trust and the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), showed that take-up of healthy school lunches increased in both primary and secondary schools
Posted: 08 July 2010 | 15:30
Two backbench Liberal Democrat MPs have called on the coalition Government to save school meals from public sector spending cuts. Annette Brooke and Bob Russell want education secretary Michael Gove to ring-fence cash for good school food, which they say is essential to protect child health, improve behaviour and "maximise pupils' ability to learn and achieve".
Posted: 07 July 2010 | 15:30
Education caterer Alliance in Partnership (AIP) has been awarded a £3m contract to provide catering services for five schools in Coventry. The three-year deal, the first to be won in the independent schools sector for AIP...
Posted: 05 July 2010 | 14:39
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Scottish health campaign likens NHS malnutrition to euthanasia; Inverness to host UK's first social enterprise hotel; Gloucestershire schools banned from 'spying' on pupils' lunchboxes and more...
Posted: 05 July 2010 | 10:39
The age of austerity is upon us, and school meals provision hasn't been spared the Government's deep cuts. Plans to extend pilot schemes of free school meals to all primary pupils below the poverty line have been shelved by Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
Posted: 02 July 2010 | 17:45
School meals champions including Jamie Oliver and the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA) have lined up to attack a speech given by the health secretary in which he said that efforts to improve school food had failed.
Posted: 02 July 2010 | 10:41
Though plans for free school meal pilots have been shelved, there is evidence that general uptake is back on the increase. Tom Vaughan asks what the age of austerity will mean for school meals provision and finds out how to appeal to children without breaking budgets.
Posted: 01 July 2010 | 14:52
Low-income families are struggling pay for healthy school meals for their children while a third of schools are still failing to comply with nutritional guidelines, according to a report by schools watchdog Oftsed.
Posted: 25 June 2010 | 17:52
An alliance of health professionals have expressed "deep concern" over the Government's decision to axe plans to extend free school meals provision to half a million primary school children from low-income families.
Posted: 22 June 2010 | 12:43
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Premier Inn bans vuvuzelas to protect customers sleep; late-night bars to pay the cost of policing drunken disorder; Qatari government interested in Savoy hotel and Grosvenor House and more
Posted: 21 June 2010 | 10:30
A decision to shelve plans to extend free school meals provision in the UK has been condemned by campaigners against child poverty and food policy pressure group Sustain. Education secretary Michael Gove announced the decision to mothball the scheme in an open letter to his Labour predecessor Ed Balls last week.
Posted: 16 June 2010 | 17:07
Industry luminary and Great British Menu Judge Prue Leith has been honoured with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. Leith, who received an OBE in 1989 for her services to the industry, has pioneered British culinary standards for over four decades,...
Posted: 14 June 2010 | 15:05
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: veteran food critic Egon Ronay dies; shot Cumbrian landlord returns home after operations; hospitality wins awards in Queen’s Birthday Honours and more…
Posted: 14 June 2010 | 10:10
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove has quashed plans made by the last Government to extend the free school meals pilot to a further 600,000 pupils this year. The LibDem-Conservative coalition Government’s future plans for free school meals pilots were outlined in a letter published yesterday
Posted: 09 June 2010 | 10:56
After a £1m cut to its budget, the School Food Trust is coming under increasing pressure to justify its existence in face of a widespread perception that its work is done. Neil Gerrard reports.
Posted: 02 June 2010 | 11:58
The Government has slashed the School Food Trust’s (SFT) budget by £1m as part as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s £6.25b of immediate spending cuts to bring down the UK’s £156b deficit.
Posted: 26 May 2010 | 11:04
The School Food Trust has avoided the axe but must save £1m this year as part of the new coalition Government’s efforts to reduce the UK’s massive fiscal deficit. Chancellor George Osborne, and his Liberal Democrat deputy, David Laws, today outlined £6.25b of immediate spending cuts
Posted: 24 May 2010 | 17:48
"Draconian" healthy eating rules are driving kids to go in search of junk food, it has been claimed. The number of children eating healthy school lunches in Glasgow has plummeted by 30,000 since national nutritional standards were introduced, according to Cordia, which provides school meals to the City Council.
Posted: 20 May 2010 | 18:08
Suzanne Duncan has been named School Chef of the Year 2010. Duncan, who is employed by North Ayrshire council, works at the Irvine Royal Academy, Irvine, Scotland. She was voted Britain’s top school chef by a panel of judges...
Posted: 12 May 2010 | 13:09
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