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Bel UK has extended the deadline for its new competition to find the School Sandwich Designer of the Year. The competition will now run until 20 December 2012 and calls for all budding little chefs to design a tasty and nutritious sandwich containing...

The Children’s Food Trust has announced it is appointing a new chief executive from April this year. Judy Hargadon OBE, who has led the Trust’s work since 2006, has announced her intention to retire from the role in March. The charity’s current...

Caterers Alliance in Partnership (AiP) served over 25,000 Christmas dinners in schools across their portfolio, generating a £80,000 turnover in the run up to the festive period. AiP's Christmas dinners are packed full of protein, carbohydrates...

Major national distributor 3663, which supplies both branded and own label products to the catering and hospitality industry, has told every supplier it deals with that products supplied should only include their ‘declared ingredients’. A spokesman...

The Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) has prepared a briefing covering issues that affect school caterers in relation to horsemeat and how they buy meat products. The organisation says caterers can use it also to reassure parents, head...

Unilever Food Solutions has pledged its support to the World Food Programme, and its aim to end child hunger in Indonesia, by working with school caterers during World Hunger Awareness (20-24 May 2013). With 500 million children currently at risk of...

A new national online training hub for school cooks, head teachers, school business managers and others working to provide healthy food for children has gone live. The Children’s Food Trust’s Learning Network aims to be a hub for information and...

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...