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A survey of the 1,102 academy schools in the UK has attempted to find out who operates the catering, which company offers the supply route and how many pupils are on the roll of each. During January and February 1,066 of the academies responded – a...

The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to ask the founders of the High Street restaurant chain Leon to look into school food is cause for concern according to LACA national chair Lynda Mitchell. Responding to the announcement today that...

The School Food Trust (SFT) has today published the results of a survey conducted among a sample of 100 academies into their attitudes towards following the nutritional standards for school food. Currently academies and free schools are exempt from...

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...