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Birmingham Future Food Symposium: The Child Nutrition Policy Rollercoaster

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Myles and Dayna reflect on what they shared and learnt at last week’s Future Food Symposium at the University of Birmingham  The Future Food Symposium 2025, hosted by the University of Birmingham, brought together academics, advocates, and practitioners working at the intersection of food, education, and policy. Across two days of panels and presentations, the […]

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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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Fix our Food Autoenrollment Pilot gets national coverage on the BBC

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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

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Universal free school meals pilot programme

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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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The School Food Plan ten years on – what lessons can we learn?

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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

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