Our Partner, Dayna, has written an article for NurseryWorld’s Early Years Educator magazine discussing our research with FixOurFood and the University of York’s Professor Maria Bryant. This study investigated the challenges of food procurement in Yorkshire, where we gathered insights from the diverse set of stakeholders involved in the process of food provision in early […]
Bremner & Co is really pleased to partner with the FixOurFood Free School Meals (FSM) Auto-enrolment project, which, with the backing of nearly 100 organisations, is calling on the government to use the upcoming Children’s Wellbeing Bill to introduce FSM auto-enrolment nationwide. An estimated 470,000 children in England are eligible for FSM but missing out
Bremner & Co is excited to announce our new research exploring the economic opportunities of expanding school meals for the UK food and farming sector, in partnership with Sustain and with support from Impact on Urban Health and the Ampney Brook Foundation. At present, 2.1 million children are eligible for free school meals in England;
New research: Could expanding free school meals boost the UK food and farming economy? Read More »
Bremner & Co ‘s role in a new trial scheme that is enabling thousands more children from England’s most disadvantaged households to access free school meals. The Yorkshire-based pilot project, run by the Fix Our Food research programme and anchored at the University of York, has already yielded hugely positive results. Bremner & Co has been
Fix our Food Autoenrollment Pilot gets national coverage on the BBC 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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Dayna Brackley, Food Policy Consultant, looks at the cocoa value chain ahead of the Easter weekend in an article for the Independent. She discusses the surge in Easter egg prices, where the root cause extends beyond inflation. Chocolate prices are on the rise due to climate change-induced disruptions in West Africa, where the majority of
The price of Easter eggs is soaring – and it’s not for the reason you think Read More »
Dayna Brackley, Food Policy Consultant, discusses the government’s £2.53 per meal rate for school meals in her latest article for the Independent. Highlighting the many challenges caterers face when working to provide nutritious meals amidst rising costs, she stresses the influence of inadequate funding on meal quality. She also discusses the administrative barriers that prevent
£2.53 per meal? No wonder our school kids are being fed cold potatoes Read More »
In her recent article for the Independent, Food Policy Consultant Dayna Brackley highlights the overlooked challenges women face in the workplace around their health needs. She draws on her research into the barriers and enablers to breastfeeding, which was featured in a recent Food Foundation report, and uses the example of breastfeeding in the workplace
Of course workplaces should make concessions for menopausal women Read More »
Today, Myles Bremner joined 129 signatories, representing charities, councils and academia, in a letter to Schools Minister, Damian Hinds, demanding the automatic enrolment of all eligible children in free school meals. This International School Meals Day, we are confronted with a stark reality: under the Department for Education’s outdated ‘opt-in’ approach, 11% of eligible children
Closing the Hunger Gap: The Urgent Case for Free School Meal Auto-Enrolment Read More »
