INTRODUCTION TO THE TOOLKIT

This guide contains insights from teachers, kitchen teams, our charity’s school chef trainers - Nerissa, Adam and Andy, and our co-founder and exec chef, Nicole. It’s been created to:

• Help kitchen teams prepare for increased demand while keeping quality high

• Help schools support kitchen teams and provide resources to meet demand

• Encourage take-up of free school meals .

If you find this toolkit useful, head over to our website www.chefsinschools.org.uk for more resources about improving school food, a toolkit for delivering food education hubs and our pioneering training for school chefs.

Thanks for caring about the food in your school, hello@chefsinschools.org.uk

From all of us at Chefs in Schools.

Providing all of London’s primary school children with free school meals could change the way in which our society cares for our children forever. It could not only be hugely beneficial for thousands of London school children, it could be the launching pad for the policy across the country.

But only if it is done well.

This pack of resources is aimed to help every school put its best foot forward. At Chefs in Schools we believe in a whole school approach to school food. This pack contains advice for kitchen teams, school business managers and teachers to help them work together to meet increased demand.

This policy could mark the blueprint for further school food intervention across the country, proving that both an extension of eligibility and universal provision can be workable and successful when approached positively. Children are our future, let’s work together to feed them like it.

Thank you, Henry

Dimbleby

co-founder Chefs in Schools, writer of School Food Plan and National Food Strategy.

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