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National Childhood Obesity Week starting today (July 1st) aims to raise awareness of the dangers of being above a healthy weight during childhood. The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) measures the height and weight of around one million...

Young cook Olivia Weir, a student at St Francis of Assisi Catholic Technology College, Aldridge, Walsall, has won the Young Chef of the Year competition, organised by education catering specialist Aspens Services. Hosted by Grace Academy Coventry in...

CBBC presenter Stefan Gates has teamed up with Seasonal Berries and The Children’s Food Trust to call on little chefs across England to get involved in a recipe competition to help teach kids about the health benefits of eating berries and cooking...

Innovate Services, the catering operator to the education sector, has installed a brand new catering service and dining areas called the 'Innovation Zone' at The Cooper School, Bicester in Oxfordshire. As part of the contract, Innovate completely...

Rob Flello, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, is to become the acting chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity, taking over from Rosie Cooper MP following her work to establish the Parliamentary group, which was recently...

Infant children at 20 schools across Sheffield are being given free school meals this week as part of LACA’s National School Meals Week. Part-funded by Sheffield Change4Life, the scheme is being delivered by catering company Taylor Shaw. Peter...

The UK’s hospitality and food service sector is facing an annual bill in excess of £2.5b for food waste, a new WRAP report revealed today. The report, ‘Overview of waste in the UK Hospitality and Food Service (HaFS) Sector’, also predicts that this...

Al Crisci, the prison catering manager who opened The Clink, is leading the search in this year’s BBC Food & Farming Awards. The chef, whose own work was serialised in a BBC 1 television series, is calling on people to send in nominations for...

Cheshire-based Food Dudes, a social enterprise promoting healthy eating to schoolchildren, has announced the appointment of Ian Scothern as director of commissioning in the UK. The company runs evidenced-based programmes for schools encouraging...