Education

LACA feels that there is serious potential for the progress made in improving school food over the last six years to be de-railed by the lack of positive action by the current Government to safeguard

Unveiled in the Guardian newspaper today, the campaigning chef has an eight-point manifesto in mind that will reinforce the gains Oliver has helped initiate and close some of the loopholes that are ap

He has been shortlisted in the Best 'Dinner Lady'/'Public Caterer' category and is up against two other finalists. The award is in recognition of 'cooks who make mealtimes in our hospitals, care homes

Primary, nursery and special schools in Tower Hamlets are now serving meals that are over 75% freshly prepared, free from undesirable e-numbers, trans fats and additives like aspartame, tartrazine and

School catering company Aspens Services and Churchill Primary organised the meal featuring home-grown produce from the gardens of parents and teaching staff, as well as from the school's own garden. T

The charity has been chosen as one of just seven organisations across the country to receive an RPSH 'Health promotion and community well-being organisation and partnership award' 2011. The Trust won

The three caterers are Jane Beardsley of Wellow House School, Wellow, Newark, Nottinghamshire; Richard Monk from Mount Carmel RC High School, Accrington, Lancashire and Linda Good of The Holy Cross Ca

The free lunch was available to around 1,500 pupils attending the 50 schools Sodexo operates at in Bromley, 600 pupils at 37 schools in Wiltshire and 72 pupils in Salisbury.

Over the next few years, the Soil Association will be working with 10 schools across London in the Farm Academy Programme, which helps teach pupils about where their food comes from through farm visit

The charity believes the fact that 40% of primary school children's lunchboxes do not contain any fruits or vegetables – compared to 10% for school canteen meals – means they are not sufficiently