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Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Apply for meals at home from your council or other local organisation
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery and find out how to report your actions.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
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