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The School Food Matters website is for anyone who cares about school food and food education. Here you will find evidence of why school food matters, great examples of best practice and fun ideas to get children cooking and growing and out onto a farm.
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Latest News
The future of food in Academies
- Tuesday, 15 May 2012
When SFM joined up with Jamie Oliver, Children's Food Campaign, LACA and Food for Life Partnership to form the Save our School Food Standards campaign, the politicians dismissed our concerns and asked for evidence of non-compliance. Well now they have it. Today's piece in the Guardian points to evidence from research commissioned by the School Food Trust showing that 9 out of 10 academies are selling non-compliant food to its students.
Our new campaigner?
- Monday, 14 May 2012
Bravo 9 year old Martha Payne for her excellent blog NeverSeconds which exposes some pretty scary meals at her primary school. Her blog has attracted the attentions of the Daily Mail and a tweet from Jamie Oliver which has prompted over 100,000 visits to the blog! SFM will be booking Martha for work experience in 2018. If your school doesn't have school food standards in place and you have some scary school meals to share with SFM,
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Meeting with Sarah Teather
- Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Yesterday SFM with MP Zac Goldsmith went along to the DfE to meet with Sarah Teather to talk about the Save our School Food Standards campaign. With media focus firmly on the campaign and 55 MPs signatures on EDM 2854, this was the Minister's chance to respond to concerns over the erosion of school food standards.