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 This International School Meals Day, we are confronted with a stark reality: under the Department for Education’s outdated ‘opt-in’ approach, 11% of eligible children
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