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Knowsley Council has frozen its prices for school meals

3 April 2012 | No comments

Families facing mounting pressures on their finances will welcome a decision from Knowsley Council not to increase the prices of its school meals for a year.

Uptake for Southwark’s free healthy school meals programme continues to rise

29 February 2012 | No comments

The vast majority of reception and year one pupils in Southwark are taking advantage of the council’s pioneering free health healthy school meals (FHSM) programme, it was revealed today.

Parents urged to claim free school meals

10 January 2012 | No comments

Enfield Council is urging all parents who may be eligible, to register for free school meals before the 16th January.

New powers for schools to beat the takeaways

3 January 2012 | No comments

Schools will now be able to take on the takeaways with special meal deals to boost uptake of school lunches and tackle obesity.

School chefs take up quality training

8 November 2011 | No comments

North Yorkshire school chefs are being given a chance to develop their skills in food preparation and cookery as part of the county council’s bid to serve top-quality nutritious school meals to the county’s children.

Pupils to “Get remembering” during National School Meals Week

4 November 2011 | No comments

Youngsters will get a taste of wartime rationing as they remember the fallen during National School Meals Week (7-11 Nov).

Pupils say ‘aye aye Captain’ to healthy eating

3 November 2011 | No comments

Trafford school children welcomed a special visitor to help them learn about the importance of healthy eating.

Bob goes forward for a second national school dinners award

17 October 2011 | No comments

Continued success for school food waste scheme

26 September 2011 | No comments

School pupils across Caerphilly county borough continue to be green-minded by recycling their food waste as part of a special scheme.

Save money and cut waste with school lunches

8 September 2011 | No comments

As many children across Warwickshire go back to school this week, the Warwickshire Waste Partnership is encouraging parents to pack them a waste-free lunch box to help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.

University campus caterers in Falmouth and Penryn receive prestigious Gold awards

10 August 2011 | No comments

University College Falmouth’s Woodlane Campus Refectory in Falmouth and The Stannary at the Tremough Campus in Penryn, which is shared by University College Falmouth and the University of Exeter, have been awarded prestigious Gold level

Sarah Teather welcomes rising school lunch take-up

11 July 2011 | No comments

New figures, published today by the School Food Trust and Local Authority Caterers Association show that an average of 44.1 per cent of children in primary schools and 37.6 per cent of pupils in secondary school opted for school meals in the 2010-11 year, up from 41.4 and 35.8 per cent respectively in the previous year.

The Department responds to concerns about the cost of school lunches

4 April 2011 | 1 comment

Commenting on reports the cost of school lunches will rise now funding is no longer ringfenced a Department for Education spokesman said: