How many more children in your area could become entitled to free school meals when the scheme expands to all households on Universal Credit? Bremner & Co have built an interactive data tool that compares free school meal registrations with Universal Credit households for every council in England, giving you the headline national picture at
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As we wind down for Christmas, Myles and the team are reflecting on the team’s 12 highlights from the last 12 months. All of us at Bremner & Co have been so chuffed to work and collaborate with so many brilliant partners – getting to the nub of what we must do to help all
Happy Christmas from the Bremner & Co Team! Read More »
“Every Secondary School should appoint a Head of Food”. Our CEO, Myles Bremner, writes in the Waitrose Weekend magazine on how we need to reimagine and reinvigorate food education in our schools. You can read the article here: https://www.weekend-online.com/issue709
Lessons in Food – Why teaching about food in schools is so Important Read More »
Bremner & Co works with lots of School Business Professionals (SBPs) to capture their views, experiences and advice on their role in delivering a great school food environment. And we’re pleased to work partner with the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) to highlight and share our gleaned insights. Writing in ISBL’s ‘The Voice’ magazine,
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Ten years ago today, the Government published John Vincent and Henry Dimbleby’s School Food Plan. Welcomed by all political parties, the Guardian journalist Patrick Butler said “The School Food Plan is that rare thing in the age of cuts and austerity: a passionate, unequivocal defence of universal public service provision”. With a clear plan laying out 16 actions (and one recommendation for
The School Food Plan ten years on – what lessons can we learn? Read More »
Click on image to view the recording of the online meeting of the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition Myles Bremner 26th June 2023
The Good Examples Summer Meeting Read More »
Myles Bremner, former Director of the School Food plan, and CEO of Bremner & Co (formerly Bremner Consulting) talks about the school food system, and how we must plug the holes in the school food leaky bucket. Anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes in a room with me will have heard me talk
What is the school food leaky bucket & how do we fix it? Read More »
This bestselling book aims to support students and professionals in understanding the importance of getting children learning outside the classroom. It’s packed full of creative ideas and guidance from experts to help teachers and practitioners incorporate outdoor activities throughout the school curriculum. Our own Myles Bremner and Abigail Page contributed the chapter: School gardens and
School gardens and the school food plan: contributing to a culture of healthy eating Read More »
Abigail Page, Senior Food Policy Consultant and Lead Researcher at Bremner & Co, has co-authored a study for the Food Education Learning Landscape project, in which she examined the role of school food education and school food culture in England, as well as their impact on pupils’ ability to adopt health-promoting behaviors. The study involved
