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Surrey County Council's Commercial Services recently launched a Rio 2016 cooking competition in conjunction with Pelican Procurement Services, to encourage primary school pupils to design a two course meal fit for an athlete. The council, which… Read more

The Yorkshire & Humberside region celebrated success at its recent spring/summer conference, which featured LACA chair Peter McGrath. The event was opened by regional chair Jo Webster, who talked of successes in the past year in delivering great… Read more

Eden Foodservice has announced the winner of its Art of Food drawing competition, which aimed to highlight the important role school food plays in getting pupils ready to learn. The winning entry was submitted by a year three pupil at Chester Park… Read more

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on School Food has published a position paper setting out the need for the government to consider the introduction of a packed lunch standards framework. The paper states the government should consider the… Read more

National charity the Children’s Food Trust has begun training holiday club leaders from across the West Midlands to help get children and families cooking more this summer. Staff and volunteers from Holiday Kitchen programmes in the region – schemes… Read more

Wrights Food Group sponsored Madeley High School to send a pie into space as part of the 2016 KMF Young Engineer of the Year Competition. The 12 students decided to place a Wrights pie into a capsule they created from polystyrene - to then later… Read more

The LACA (Lead Association for CAtering in Education) Main Event opened this morning at Birmingham Hilton Metropole. This year's Main Event programme is headlined by Tony Draper, President of the National Association of Head Teachers, Dr Hilary… Read more

The Department for Education (DfE) has found that the proportion of primary school pupils known to be eligible for, and claiming, free school meals is now at its lowest level at 14.5% in any year since data was first collected in 2001. These figures… Read more

With their launch at the LACA Conference in July 2015, we now have a set of aspirational Professional Standards for a range of job roles, all crucial in the delivery of quality, nutritious school food to 4.6 million children each day: • Head of… Read more