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School meals - food standards

Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.

Free school meals: guidance for schools and local authorities
- Guidance
- 25 March 2024
- Department for Education
Home-to-school travel
- Statutory guidance
- 25 January 2024
- Department for Education
School food standards: resources for schools
- Guidance
- 7 February 2023
- Department for Education
Driving school minibuses advice: schools and local authorities
- Guidance
- 4 September 2013
- Department for Transport and Department for Education
Cost of school uniforms
- Statutory guidance
- 19 November 2021
- Department for Education

Thousands more children to benefit from free breakfast clubs
- 9 July 2021
- Department for Education
- Press release
The Education Secretary's response to Lord Tyrie's letter about school uniform
- 4 September 2019
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
School responsibilities around school food: a letter to schools
- 7 June 2019
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Schools not ‘silver bullet’ to tackling childhood obesity
- 18 July 2018
- Ofsted
- Press release
Nationwide celebration of the 'great school lunch'
- 3 November 2014
- Closed organisation: Deputy Prime Minister's Office and Department for Education
- Press release

Holiday activities and food: literature review
- 16 December 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Evaluation of the 2019 holiday activities and food programme
- 16 December 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Obesity, healthy eating and physical activity in primary schools
- 18 July 2018
- Ofsted
- Research
Cost of school uniform 2015
- 25 June 2015
- Department for Education
- Research
The school food plan
- 30 July 2013
- Department for Education
- Independent report

Home to school travel and transport: statutory guidance
- 29 June 2023
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 31 October 2019
Home to school travel and transport guidance
- 18 July 2014
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 03 June 2014
Revised standards for food in schools
- 17 June 2014
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 16 April 2014

Universal infant free school meals: take-up in autumn 2014
- 18 December 2014
- Department for Education
- Transparency
UIFSM: schools offering a hot meal in 2014 to 2015
- 4 September 2014
- Department for Education
- Transparency