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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“This project has been a great success and we have a useful model for local authorities to use – but we can’t stop calling for national free school meal auto-enrolment, because until we have that, sadly, there will always be children missing out” Myles Bremner, CEO, Bremner & Co A strong call to action from
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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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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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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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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
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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’s leaders contribute to a new study on the implementation of the auto-enrolment process, published in The Lancet. Building upon the success of the Fix Our Food auto-enrolment pilot, which has enabled over 20,000 additional children to access free school meals, a recent study’s abstract was published in The Lancet, co-authored by Bremner
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
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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
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