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Gino D'Acampo partners with school caterer Innovate Services

Education catering specialist Innovate Services has announced a new partnership with Italian celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo. The TV chef and author has created 12 Italian pasta recipes that will be served at all 65 of Innovate's school, academy and college contracts.
Posted: 01 February 2012 | 13:03

Five Croydon schools to take part in food waste pilot scheme

Food wasteFive Croydon schools have been selected to take part in a 12-week school food collections waste pilot scheme, with a view to possible expansion across the borough. Recycling in Croydon was stepped up last year when a domestic food-waste collection service was introduced.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 16:06

Innovate says only 7% of lunch boxes comply with food standards

Catererandhotekeeper NewsEducation caterer Innovate Services' recent research into packed lunches found that just 7% complied with the food-based standards for school dinners. The caterer's Lunch Box Amnesty study group also found that just under a quarter (24%) of lunch boxes analysed achieved the food-based standard.
Posted: 26 January 2012 | 15:37

Schools invited to take part in Cook for the Queen competition

The QueenSchools are being invited to compete for the opportunity to prepare a Diamond Jubilee menu for the Queen at Buckingham Palace. To celebrate The Queen's 60 years on the throne, British Food Fortnight is running a competition for schools in which students will create a menu.
Posted: 25 January 2012 | 15:11

Pabulum wins £450,000 deal with Wembley High Technology College

Pabulum logoIndependent contract caterer Pabulum has won a two-year deal with Wembley High Technology College. Worth in excess of £450,000, the contract was won as a result of Pabulum's commitment to ethical catering.
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 16:24

SFT issues new nutrition guidelines for pre-school children

The School Food Trust (SFT) has issued new voluntary nutrition guidelines for pre-school children aimed at reducing obesity in under-fives. Nurseries, child-minders and other providers of early-years services now have a nationally-recognised source of information.
Posted: 17 January 2012 | 11:41

Soil Association awards Pride Catering three silver Food for Life Catering Marks

Brian Turner and Pride CateringPride Catering has scooped a hat trick of silver Food for Life Catering Marks for its school meals work in the South-east. The caterer's contracts at Vineyard, Heathfield and Brookland schools - all in the South-east - were previously bronze. Pride now holds one gold, four silver and seven bronze catering marks.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 12:21

School caterers given power to run price promotions

School caterers have been given fresh ammunition to compete with the take-aways following a Government decision to allow price promotions. New powers mean that schools will be able to target particular groups of pupils with cut-price lunchtime deals...
Posted: 03 January 2012 | 12:33

School Food Trust launches Children's Food Trust

The School Food Trust has launched a new community interest company called the Children's Food Trust (CFT) in a bid to grow its work. The charity, formerly a non-departmental public body for the Department for Education, is working with social enterprise the CFT...
Posted: 13 December 2011 | 11:11

Contract caterers hit back at Oliver over school meals guidelines

Contract caterers have hit back at suggestions by Jamie Oliver that standards will be allowed to slip in academies, where the nutritional guidelines are not mandatory. The celebrity chef stepped up the second wave of his school meals campaign last week...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 17:01

Jamie Oliver slams Government for 'eroding' school meal standards

Jamie Oliver has stepped up the second wave of his school meals campaign by slamming Education Secretary Michael Gove for "eroding" nutritional standards. The celebrity chef spoke out against the Government's decision not to make nutritional standards mandatory in free schools and academies...
Posted: 25 November 2011 | 16:23

Chartwells wins £4.5m school meals deal at Derby City Council

Compass Group's education division Chartwells has won a three-year deal with Derby City Council worth £4.5m. The contract will see the caterer deliver catering services to 5,700 pupils across 32 primary and special schools in the city.
Posted: 25 November 2011 | 13:48

Buying British would improve the standard of school dinners

Countryside Alliance FoundationCaterers should buy British in order to improve the quality of school dinners, according to the Countryside Alliance Foundation. The charity organisation, set up to educate the public about the countryside, claimed that children's health, concentration and behaviour would benefit.
Posted: 14 November 2011 | 15:36

Cucina introduces 'seeds to plates' scheme for schools

School caterer Cucina Restaurants has introduced a 'seeds to plates' scheme to keep meal prices down despite rising food supplier costs. Food prices...
Posted: 10 November 2011 | 14:53

Cordia launches first in-school café at Knightswood Secondary

Scholars' Café at Knightswood SecondaryGlasgow school caterer Cordia launched its first in-school café today, at Knightswood Secondary. Named the Scholars' Café, following a pupil competition, the new café was officially opened by the organisation's chair, councillor Jim Mackechnie.
Posted: 07 November 2011 | 18:09

Jamie Oliver’s latest school dinners plan gets a mixed response from the industry

Jamie OliverThe school meals industry has broadly welcomed Jamie Oliver's new mission to 'save school dinners', but the celebrity chef has come under fire over the practicality of some of his proposals. In his Feed Me Even Better campaign manifesto launched last week, Oliver outlined his eight-point action plan.
Posted: 04 November 2011 | 14:35

Leicestershire catering firm Wilson Vale wins two schools contracts

Catererandhotekeeper NewsLeicestershire catering firm Wilson Vale has won two new school catering contracts with a combined annual turnover of £250,000. The independent caterer, which now has a portfolio of 16 education contracts...
Posted: 28 October 2011 | 12:35

MPW's plans to improve school meals don't impress the Department for Education

Marco Pierre WhiteMarco Pierre White has drawn up plans to improve the UK's school dinners, but following discussions with Education Secretary Michael Gove, the ideas have been shelved. The former-Michelin-starred-chef turned Bernard Matthews spokesman met with Gove last year.
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 11:00

Food for Thought wins Soil Association award

Food for Thought, a not-for-profit caterer owned by 17 Merseyside schools, has been awarded the Soil Association's Silver Food for Life Catering Mark for...
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 10:33

Cucina wins six new academy school contracts

Cucina logoThe five-year contracts at Highdown School and Sixth Form in Reading; Leigh Technology Academy in Dartford; Longfields Academy, Wilmington Academy, and special school Milestone Academy, all in Kent; and a three-year deal at Stockley Academy in Middlesex, gives Cucina access to almost 7,000 new customers.
Posted: 27 September 2011 | 11:37

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