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Unlocking almost £50 million for disadvantaged pupils: The impact of ‘universal registration’ across London boroughs

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The Mayor of London’s latest announcement confirms that universal registration has helped identify more than 20,200 previously unregistered pupils, unlocking almost £50 million in additional funding for London schools. We are incredibly proud to have partnered with Basis to support the Greater London Authority in evaluating this work and strengthening how impact is captured across […]

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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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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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New research: Improving access to free school meals – evaluating the implementation of free school meal auto-enrolment processes 

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We are pleased to co-author the latest paper from the FixOurFood research consortium. This paper evaluates the implementation of free school meal auto-enrolment, highlighting the potential benefits, conditions for success and support needed to scale this approach.  The free school meal registration problem – project context  An estimated 220,000 entitled children miss out on free school meals because they are not registered, with schools missing out on vital, associated Pupil Premium funding. One of the main reasons families

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Our January in events: early years nutrition in Parliament, justice in the food system, and fresh fruit dolphins

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January started at pace. Through conversations on school food funding, farming systems, racial justice, early years nutrition and infant feeding, the team were excited to kick start 2026 with a variety of events. We’ve taken a moment to reflect on where we have spent our time, and what it could mean for the months to come.   8th Jan School Food Funding – Caterer Roundtable  Myles joined a School

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Working with councils to improve child health and tackle inequalities 

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Across the country, councils are working hard to make sure every child has access to good food, whether through early years support, free school meals or wider healthy weight or anti-poverty strategies. But we know how complex this can be. Food provision across childhood often sits across multiple teams, services and settings, making it hard

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Our July in events: nutrition, equity, and local food systems

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From farmer’s fields to Westminster corridors, July’s events gave us space to connect, share ideas, and push forward conversations on food, education, and early years. We’ve gathered the highlights from a month that showed, once again, how change is built in meetings, in kitchens, in fields, and in communities.  Groundswell  2 July Lannock Farm, Hertfordshire 

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Auto-enrolment for free school meals: why it matters and where we stand 

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Bremner & Co’s CEO Myles Bremner joined a powerful panel on this week’s Food Foundation podcast to discuss the case for auto-enrolment for free school meals (FSM). He was joined by Professor Maria Bryant, of Fix Our Food, the University of York’s five-year research programme; Labour MP Peter Lamb, Liberal Democrat councillor; Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Deputy

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Auto-enrolment of free school meals – A ‘No Brainer’?

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Bremner & Co, with colleagues from FixOurFood, are accepted for publication in Public Health Nutrition. We’re excited to share that our work on free school meals auto-enrolment has just been published in the Public Health Nutrition journal! It’s a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come and how close we are to solving a

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