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One in seven young people currently receiving free school meals (FSM) have said that the allowance they receive to buy a meal does not allow them to buy a full meal, a report has found. The British Youth Council and Child Poverty Action Group’s new...

LACA consultant Pat Fellows has submitted the organisation’s response to a consultation being carried out by the Department of Health called ‘The Next Steps for Nursery Milk’. She says: “We believe that the provision of free milk to children under...

East Lothian Council has responded to a flurry of queries from school caterers about the cost of ingredients for its meals, which were quoted as £3.30 in Channel 4’s Dispatches programme aired on September 10th. Council communications officer Pauline...

New School Premises (England) Regulations 2012 have been introduced this year and feature changes to the requirements for schools to provide adequate facilities for the preparation and serving of food and drinks for pupils. In the previous Standards...

LACA, the voice of the school food industry, shares the concerns raised in the Save the Children Report entitled ‘Child Poverty in 2012’ published today. The study highlights that an estimated 3.5 million children are living in poverty in the UK and...

The number of children having healthy school meals in England has risen for a fourth year running – with an estimated 167,000 more children using their school dining rooms last year. New figures, reported by local authorities and published this...

Levi Roots is today launching his School of Life Tour, which will see the well-known entrepreneur visit many schools throughout the year in a bid to get more young people excited about cooking and making music, as well as motivating them to success...

LACA chair Anne Bull has personally written to Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mary Creagh to rebut claims she has made that caterers have been less than candid in dealing with the issue of horsemeat being passed off...

The latest regional heat of LACA’s 2013 School Chef of the Year (SCoTY) competition has taken place, with Steve Spofford being named the winner of the South West regional heat and claiming one of 10 spots in the final. Steve works for independent...