March 2026

New County Council Network report on free school meals is published 

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The County Councils Network has published a new Dialogues report on free school meals, developed in partnership with Basis and Bremner & Co.  We are pleased to have supported this work alongside colleagues across the sector. It reflects a growing focus among councils on how to ensure that children who are entitled to free school meals are actually receiving them, and […]

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Bremner & Co to deliver Early Years Food Provision Landscape Review with Public Health Wales 

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Bremner & Co are delighted to be working with Public Health Wales on a new project aimed at strengthening understanding of food provision across early years settings in Wales, supporting action towards a healthier, fairer future for children and families.  About the project  This project will deliver a comprehensive landscape review of early years food

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New podcast: Working with councils to unlock £12 million in funding through free school meal auto-enrolment

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At Bremner & Co, we’ve really enjoyed working with our partners, Basis, over the past several years to support local authorities to tackle one of the most persistent challenges in the free school meals (FSM) system: that thousands of children are entitled to this support but are not registered to receive it.  Together, we have worked with councils, including Tower Hamlets,

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Still Too Young To Count? Reflecting six months on 

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This month, I was pleased to author an article on our free early years meals (FEYM) research for Nursery World’s EYE Early Years Educator (EYE) supplement. Writing it several months on from when the research was originally published provided an opportunity to reflect on how much has moved on even in that short time, and how the findings continue to shape our conversations across

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Bremner & Co joins the new Commercial Baby Food Review 

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Bremner & Co are pleased to announce that we have joined the Commercial Baby Food Review, a new cross-sector initiative working to improve the nutritional quality, composition and marketing of commercial baby and toddler foods in the UK through stronger, enforced regulation.  Funded by Impact on Urban Health, the Review brings together specialists in early years nutrition,

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