Resources

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We’ve produced for primary school-aged children three different packed lunch menus with tried and tested recipes. They meet the same healthy standards as school lunches.

Early years settings provide an ideal opportunity to help every child eat well, enjoy a varied diet and establish healthy eating habits to take them into their school years and adult life.

A comprehensive pack of information and practical resources to help schools increase the take up of free school meals.

The issue of free school meals is hugely important but can be complicated. If you are unsure where to begin and need some help in understanding the key issues surrounding free school meals then this guide is for you.

Are you thinking of tendering your school catering service? Our quick guide helps you through the process.

Use these translated leaflets and a poster to reach more parents with the key messages about free school meals.

Our termly publication for school cooks

A parents' guide to secondary school food

A little book about a big subject. This handy booklet explains to parents of reception-age children that school food has undergone a transformation in recent years and is now the healthy choice and subject to national standards.

A range of posters showing simple, key information about the national nutrient-based standards for school food.

First published in 2008 when the standards were new, this guide remains popular today.

First published in 2007 as the national standards for school food were being introduced, this guide remains popular today.

First published in 2007 as the standards were being introduced, this comprehensive guide continues to be popular and helpful for all those involved in providing food across the whole school day.

The Recipes for success series provides tried and tested recipes to help you offer a popular menu and overcome common challenges with meeting the school food standards.

Free, ready to use and nutritionally analysed, these cards will help you maintain the national school food standards as part of your school menu cycle .

This food chart highlights vegetables, salad, fruit, meat and fish. It plots their availability across the year and their peak nutritional value.

Free to download here is our one-stop guide to developing an efficient meals service for schools and academies.

Changing and varying the prices of your school meals can grow your sales and building your market long term. This guide explains the new powers enabling variable pricing for school meals and will help you introduce it at your school.

Our toolkit provides the inspiration and clear step-by-step guidance needed to achieve variable pricing as a tool in growing your sales and building markets for the longer-term, and helps to explain the new powers designed to make this easier.

Our free, quick guide to reviewing your school catering service outlines your key options, their pros and cons, how to balance efficiency with quality, how to decide which option is best for your school, and what steps to take next.

The education sector in England spends £1 billion a year on catering. For the
average school, that is around 10% of their budget. Making sure you’re getting
the very best value for your budget is crucial, but how do you choose the best
ways to buy goods, support or services for your school?
This guide takes you through the steps you need to take and questions you
need to ask.

December 2012. A comparison of school food standards and guidance in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The Trust has developed a take up tracker tool and user guide to help schools to record and monitor their school lunch take up.