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Transforming school food and drink
Welcome to the new Leeds School Meals website.
NEWS
News! Training Event - Support and guidance for Self Catering Schools
All schools that provide a self catering school meal service have been invited to a morning session that aims to provide support and guidance for Self Catering schools to achieve mandatory nutrient standards, and provide an opportunity to network and share experiences.
Who should attend?
The invite is restricted to 2 persons a school e.g. your key members of staff e.g. head cook and assistant - and / or head teacher / healthy schools lead (?) this depends on the structure of your schools catering provision. For more information contact Rosemary Molinari on 0113 2243779 or email rosemary.molinari@educationleeds.co.uk.
New! Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State for the Department of Children, Schools and Families, prioritising School Meals.
The following letters have been sent to Council lead members, Headteachers and Chairs of Governors from the Rt. Hon Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State for the Department of Children, Schools and Families, regarding prioritising the increase of school meal take up. The lead member letter makes a key reference to ensuring increasing take up is referenced in any Children and Young Peoples Plans.
New! Recent Change to Free School Meals Qualifying Criteria
The Education (Free School Lunches) (Working Tax Credit) (England) Order 2009 came into force on 1st May 2009.
The effect of this legislation is that it allows local authorities and schools to give free school meals for a period of up to 4 weeks to children whose parents or carers have been receiving Working Tax Credit (WTX) but become unemployed or reduce their hours to less than 16 hours a week.
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customers (HMRC) will now give these non-working people WTX for a further 4 weeks after they become unemployed; this award is known as “WTX Run- On” (WTX-RO). Parents are entitled to receive FSMs for this run-on period.
New! City Wide Cultural Food Policy
The Leeds School Meals Department have developed a City Wide Cultural Food Policy. To read more about the policy and to access the link then please go the
Catering Provision page of our website.
New! School Meal Audits- Information and New Request Form
The School Meals Department provides a school meals auditing service to Leeds schools. For more information about this service and to request an audit please see the
Monitoring of School Meal Standards page.
New! Cashless Systems for Dining Rooms- A Guide for Schools
New guidance for schools on how to implement cashless systems for dining rooms is now available to view. It advises schools on the benefits and limitations of a cashless system and the implementation procedure It has been developed in partnership with Commissioning Procurement and Business Development. For more information and to access the guidance toolkit please go to Kitchens & small equipment page.
New! Increasing Free School Uptake Toolkit for Schools- Available to view here
A new FREE toolkit DVD on how to increase free school meal uptake is available to all schools and was sent out to schools in the first week of term in the envopack. It is also available to view here on our website. To view toolkit or to read more about Free School Meals in Leeds and the Leeds Free School Meals Research project then please go to Free school meals page.
Packed Lunch Guidance Policy- New ‘How To’ kit available for schools
The Leeds School Meals Department has launched a City Wide Packed Lunch Guidance Policy. The policy and resources aim to support schools and families wishing to improve the quality of food brought from home and responds to public consultation findings. Packed Lunch Guidance Policy resources are available to all schools in Leeds- the ‘how to’ kit provides in depth information on how to implement a school packed lunch guidance policy. For more information about the policy and to view the policy, the school’s ‘how to’ kit and related documents please visit the Packed Lunch page on this website.
The Leeds School Meals team are here to offer guidance and support to all schools to help implement the new school meal standards, improve the dining experience and ensure everyone has access to and enjoys healthy school meals.
The aim of the website is to:
- Share best practice
- Provide access to useful resources
- Give everyone an opportunity to comment about their school meal and/or dining room experience.
This site is particularly useful for:
- Dinner ladies and/or Dining Room supervisors
- Cooks
- Students
- Health Professionals
- School staff/Governors
- Anyone with an interest in school meals
The team are keen to ensure this site meets your needs, and will be updating the site with new projects and developments regularly, but if you feel you have some ideas for information that would be useful on the site please let us know.
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Transforming school food and drink in partnership
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