What else is the Agency doing about food in schools?
The Agency continues to see work in schools as a priority area and is involved in a range of activities that involve schoolchildren, parents, teachers, school caterers and school governors. The Agency is also continuing to work with Government education and health departments, for example: UK-wide • Distribution of Dish it Up! CD-Rom to all UK secondary schools to help them encourage 11-12 year olds to eat more healthily. • Promotion of cooking skills and food hygiene to young people through a travelling food bus. • Using a whole-school approach to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables with cartoon characters the Bash Street Kids. In England • Evaluation of the operation of statutory nutritional standards for school lunches. • Work is proposed with OfSTED to examine ‘whole-school’ activity relating to food in the primary school/early learning settings. • Active advisory role on the National Food Scheme and the ‘Food in Schools’ programme, which aims to bring together all
