Education

Food from local producers amounting to more than £500,000 are used in school meals each year, but councillors are keen to give county businesses the best possible opportunity to work with the council

The Mayor has written to all 2300 plus primary schools in the capital urging them to create food gardens.

Schools, local authorities, consultants and contract caterers gathered to hear details at the 'Cashless Schools Conference' yesterday hosted by Croydon Council's meals service Food in Schools. Allyson

The online competition, which Narramore completed on the County Caterer's My School Lunch website, required her to answer cookery questions and to say who she would most like to cook for.

The Ormiston Park Academy will introduce the measure from this year onwards, reported The Thurrock Gazette. Parents will be able to request a report of what their child is eating to be sent home each

One school chef from Hull is already in the running.

Figures from County Caterers - North Yorkshire County Council's school catering arm - reveal that last year up to 280 pupils daily didn't take the free meal they are entitled to. With primary school d

The kids have added iconic the Bull, by artist Laurence Broderick, to the list of 'celebrities' urging schools to join a UN campaign. Every day, around 14,400 children in the developing world die from

Footballers from Torquay United FC recently visited Barton Primary School to talk about the importance of school food and healthy eating with pupils, and to launch the 'School Dinners Make Winners' co

The research for the Food Standards Agency shows that parents are filling lunchboxes with crisps, sweets, and sugary drinks rather than fruit and vegetables at the same time as the Government has intr