 School Food Trust
The School Food Trust was set up in 2005 with £15 million of funding from the Department for Education and Skills to promote the education and health of children and young people by improving the quality of food supplied and consumed in schools.
Following the report Turning the Tables: Transforming School Food published by the School Meals Review Panel in October 2005, the Trust is now charged with taking forward the Panel’s recommendations to transform school food and food skills to improve health and education for school age children and young people.
The transformation of school food and food skills is critical to the health of a generation of children and will have a significant impact on our economy. Obesity in children is rapidly increasing, children’s knowledge of where food comes from has diminished and cooking skills across communities are declining. Unless we act now the next generation faces a bleak future of ill-health.
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School Food Trust Newsletter
Guide to the nutrient-based standards
A guide to introducing the Government's food-based and nutrient-based standards for school lunches.
The School Food Trust has produced this guide to assist everyone involved in the provision of school food. It provides information on how to meet, implement and monitor the Government’s food-based and nutrient-based standards for school lunches. This guide includes three primary school case studies showing the steps these schools took to meet the nutrient-based standards ahead of the September 2008 deadline.
Innovative mid-morning snacks
From September 2007, schools must comply with the new food-based standards for school food other than lunches. This means that cakes and biscuits can only be provided at lunch time, and can no longer be served at other times of the day. We appreciate that caterers may have concerns about this standard being implemented; however some schools have already managed the change successfully. Here are some suggestions for you to try out at your school.
Myth Busters
Many people have misconceptions about the new standards for school food. This new web section blows open some of these myths.
Guide to the new food-based standards for food other than lunches
This guide has been produced by the School Food Trust to help deliver the new school food standards, develop food skills amongst children and young people, and bring longer term improvements to
their health and education.
The information within this guide is intended to help you introduce the new food-based standards into the wide range of food services which operate across the school day. The guide has been written on the basis of draft regulations. The legislation for these new standards will come into effect in September 2007 and it is recommended that schools start working towards them now.
Revised guide to standards for school lunches
This is a revised guide to the interim food-based standards for school lunches. It highlights the amendments to these standards that we expect to come into effect in September 2007. The guide provides the rationale for and a clear interpretation of each standard, with practical advice on how to implement them.
Million Meals Campaign
A revolution is underway in school food. Since September 2006, every pupil taking a school lunch is guaranteed, by law, a balanced, nutritious meal. We now need to make sure they are eating them and the 'Million Meals' campaign aims to do just that. If you represent a school, talk to your head teacher and sign up today using your school's URN number.
Parents Guide to the new standards
The School Food Trust has put together
this guide for parents and carers. It covers
the first two parts of the Government’s
new package of standards, which are foodbased
standards for school lunches and or
all other school food, including breakfast,
mid-morning break, tuck shops, vending
machines, and after-school clubs.
A Second Leaflet for Parents and Carers
This second leaflet for parents and carers covers food outside of lunch and throughout the school day, offers practical advice on how parent's and carers can help get involved in promotion healthy school food and has information about our Million Meals campaign.
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