School Food Trust
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The School Food Trust is a UK non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), giving independent support and advice to schools and parents to improve the standard of school meals. The trust was created in 2005 following celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's critique of the nutritional quality of school meals in his TV documentary Jamie's School Dinners.
The trust is governed by a board appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, and managed on a day-to-day basis by an executive team. A criticism is that 8 of the 14 board members are either part of the food and catering industry, or close to it. [1] Dame Suzi Leather was appointed as the first Chair of the trust, but resigned a year later when appointed as Chair of the Charity Commission. Baroness Maggie Jones was appointed interim Chair in August 2006 [2].
In November 2006, Prue Leith was named as the chair [3] [4].
The trust was initially funded by a £15 million grant from the Department for Education and Skills, and has applied for £45 million additional funding from the Big Lottery Fund. The School Foods Trust is seeking National Lottery funding for a network of school childrens’ cookery clubs to be set up by 2008. [5][6]
[edit] External links
- School Food Trust website
- School Food Trust, Strategic Plan 2006-2009
- Healthy food in schools - transforming school meals, DfES launch press release, 30 March 2005
- Blair acts on Jamie's plan for schools, The Observer, 20 March 2005
- More money for school dinners as Jamie tastes campaign success, The Times, 31 March 2005
- Grease is the word, Katharine Quarmby, New Statesman, 20 February 2006
- School snack ban plans proposed, BBC, 2 March 2006
