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Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
This collection brings together publications by PHE relating to schools and school food.
Resources to help schools plan and provide healthy food in schools.
Guidance for schools and local authorities about providing school meals including information on free school meal eligibility.
Guidance on the standards for planning and providing food in schools.
Data from before the introduction of the universal infant free school meals policy.
The Trust was the advisor to government on school meals and children’s food. It became an independent body in 2011 and was renamed the Children’s Food Trust.
Research report looking at secondary school headteachers' and senior managers’ views regarding school food policies.
Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
User guide for the download of historical free school meals eligibility data for schools and local authorities.
Model form that schools can use to determine which children are eligible for free school meals and the pupil premium.
How to improve school food and schoolchildren's diets.
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