The School Food Trust

The School Food Trust helps deliver the new school food standards, develop food skills amongst children and young people and bring longer term improvements to their health and education. Whilst the Trust works closely with the Department for Education and Skills, it is an independent organisation, providing advice and information to anyone involved in the provision of school food.

The Trust believes that the transformation of school food and food skills is critical to the health of a generation of children. Obesity in children is rapidly increasing, children's knowledge of where food comes from has diminished and cooking skills across communities are declining.We are passionate about our task and have set ourselves four key goals that we will strive to achieve over the next three years:

• 1. Ensure all schools meet the food based and nutrient based standards for lunch and non-lunch food
• 2. Increase the uptake of school meals
• 3. Reduce diet-related inequalities in childhood through food education and school based

The Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA)

The Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA) represents catering managers who provide services to all sectors of Local Authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. With over 3 million school lunches being served every day in more than 22,000 schools, the LACA network is the country's largest provider of school catering in Britain.

Bringing New Standards to School Meals

LACA members are responsible for working with the School Food Trust in ensuring that the new Nutritional Standards for school meals are carried out in school kitchens across Great Britain. As a result of the Government investing money in the school meals service, caterers and schools are now in a position to make improvements to the food they provide. It will ensure

Contact

You can contact the School Food Trust in any of the following ways:

• Email - info@sft.gsi.gov.uk
• Phone - 020 7273 5205
• Post - School Food Trust, Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, SW1H 9NA
• Helpline: 0800 089 5001; helpline@schoolfoodtrust.org.uk

Contact

Find out more about the work of LACA by visiting the website - www.laca.co.uk

For General Enquiries, please email LACA on admin@laca.co.uk

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