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Ofsted’s new Common Inspection Framework includes a judgment on personal development, behaviour and welfare. As part of reaching this judgment, inspectors will look at the extent to which schools

The School Food Plan identified three crucial elements in schools with great food cultures: looking through the eyes of the child; a 'whole school approach' to food”...

Corsham Regis has transformed their school tuck shop by introducing a range of Pupils Profit healthy snacks. The tuckshop enables the children to develop and practice mental maths...

Schools & caterers are encouraged to use the Government Buying Standards for Food & Catering Services Nutrition Criteria (GBSF) alongside the School Food Standards to help reduce salt, saturated fat and sugar in children's diets.

The Children's Food Trust has produced answers to frequently asked questions about the new school food standards. The FAQs cover the following areas:

The school food standards help children develop healthy eating habits and ensure that they get the energy and nutrition they need across the whole school day....

Children's Food Trust has produced a range of practical tools to support schools and caterers to meet the revised school food standards. These include:

School governors are responsible for the provision of school food and ensuring that the school food standards are met. The Department for Education has produced some useful guidance to support governors. 

School Food Matters (SFM) school meals improvement campaign has been independently evaluated. School meals have been completely transformed since 2007 and campaign goals have been delivered....

The leadership team at Cheam Fields Primary School thought it would be impossible to deliver UIFSM. School meals were cooked off site and take-up was at 24%. Here, Nicky Gillhespy (SBM) shares the school's story...