17-08-10
Welsh: Regional Committee Meeting
08-09-10
HACCP ‘Making it Work’
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
09-09-10
South West: Regional Committee Meeting
09-09-10
West Midlands: Committee meeting
13-09-10
Auditing Skills
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
15-09-10
London & South East Committee Meeting
15-09-10
London & South East Committee Meeting
20-09-10
Yorkshire and Humberside: Committee Meeting
20-09-10
RSPH Level 3 Award in Supervising Food Safety
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
22-09-10
School Food: Healthy Children, Healthy Minds
Central London, 09:00 - 14:00 (half day)
27-09-10
Training the Trainer
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
29-09-10
Welsh: Regional Meeting
04-10-10
HACCP ‘Taking it Further’
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
11-10-10
RSPH Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
12-10-10
Welsh: Regional Committee Meeting
13-10-10
Yorkshire and Humberside: Regional Event


Since inception, LACA, now LACA Ltd has set out to inform, develop, represent and support its members through a range of initiatives and services. It is a professional body representing 800 catering managers and over 100,000 staff employed in nearly 20,000 schools that provide services to Local Authorities in England, Scotland and Wales. The Northern Ireland region is currently dormant. The membership of LACA Ltd is diverse, and includes Public and Private Sector Providers, Client Officers, Dieticians and individual schools, as well as a body of Associate Members who are jointly responsible for the supply of over £425m worth of food and equipment to the school catering service.
30 July 2010
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29 July 2010
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27 July 2010
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Local authority caterers across the UK celebrated the success of colleagues when the 2010 Awards were handed out at the LACA Gala Dinner.
In what proved the high point of the Local Authority Caterers' Association annual conference held at Hilton Birmingham Metropole some of the industry's best performers were recognised by their peers.
Click here to take a look at the LACA Awards 2010 photo gallery.

Dear member,
You may have seen previous emails regarding the School Meals Matter campaign that is being run by both LACA and the Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine. The petition has now reached over 1,000 but in order for this campaign to be really effective we really do need to involve everyone we can.
Every LACA regional meeting or industry meeting that I attend, people are talking about the school lunch grant and what a catastrophic affect losing it will have to the industry. So what’s stopping you signing up and encouraging your staff and family and friends? If you have already signed up, thank you for your support and remember that anyone can sign, not just people who work in the industry!!!
We really do need to speak with a strong and unified voice if we’re going to make any impact on the incoming Government. Loss of this funding WILL impact on peoples jobs, there is no two ways about it and this is the message that we need to be relaying!
Please follow this link to sign the petition – it will take 30 seconds. You can also follow the campaign on Twitter and Facebook.
If you have any questions regarding the campaign, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Regards, Vicki
Click below to sign the School Meals Matter letter now!

NSMW, which takes place from Monday 8th November to Friday 12th November 2010, provides an excellent platform for school caterers to increase school meal numbers and promote the benefits and importance of healthy eating to young children and their parents. In 2009 market research showed that where meal numbers had increased the average was 7.8%.
This annual event run by LACA will continue to be an online campaign after the success achieved last year. Each day there will be a different theme and more information will be available at www.iloveschoolmeals.co.uk

The School Catering Exhibition ran alongside the Local Authority Caterers Association National Conference and AGM at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on the 7th, 8th & 9th July 2010
Full conference story follow.
The Finishing Touches Display Salon took place during the LACA conference on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th July.
Click here to see the Finishing Touches winners for 2010
Click to take a look at the following photo galleries:
LACA Awards 2010
LACA Pre Conference Dinner 2010
LACA Conference 2010
LACA Exhibition 2010
Finishing Touches 2010