School Food Trust

The School Food Trust is an independent body with the unique remit of transforming school food and food skills. It was set up as Non Departmental Public Body in 2005 with £15 million of funding from the then Department for Education and Skills (replaced by Department for Children, Schools and Families, DCSF and subsequently by the current Department for Education (DfE) to promote the education and health of children and young people by improving the quality of food supplied and consumed in schools. In April 2007 the Trust became registered as a Charity.

The remit of the School Food Trust is to transform school food and food skills, promote the education and health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools.

An excellent resource with sections aimed at:

• school cooks and caterers
• school heads and school teachers
• parents and carers
• children and young people
• those working in health or school food at National, Regional and Local Authority level