Food education is widely recognised as part of how young people learn to live well. Yet in practice, access is uneven. It depends on where you are, what your school prioritises, and what happens after age 16. Hungry for Change, the latest national report from Best Food Forward at The School of Artisan Food, puts some weight […]
This month, I was pleased to author an article on our free early years meals (FEYM) research for Nursery World’s EYE Early Years Educator (EYE) supplement. Writing it several months on from when the research was originally published provided an opportunity to reflect on how much has moved on even in that short time, and how the findings continue to shape our conversations across
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Ask almost any parent whether cooking is an important life skill and they will say yes. Ask their child and you will get the same answer. New national polling from The School of Artisan Food’s Best Food Forward programme suggests that 97% of parents and 91% of young people consider cooking healthy meals and making good
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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
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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Press release A new report – ‘Too young to count’ – reveals that, despite rising hunger and poverty, most children in childcare are excluded from free meal support. Read exclusive coverage in The Independent here. Nearly 300,000 young children in poverty will miss out on free meals in nurseries and childcare settings, according to a
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Today we’re publishing Follow the Carrot, the final report for our research that asked a simple question: could expanding free school meals also strengthen the UK food and farming economy? Our analysis suggests the answer is yes, if expansion is matched with the right conditions for success. Commissioned by Sustain and with support from the
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The Food Foundation’s latest report is the final in its three-part series on nutrition during a child’s early years. Boosting Early Years Nutrition to Support a Healthy Childhood focuses on children aged 1 to 5, exploring the food environments they grow up in-from commercial baby snacks and toddler milks, to the meals served in childcare
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This week we’re celebrating the publication of Dayna Brackley’s lead-author paper, co-written with Rebecca Wells, from the Centre for Food Policy at City St George’s, University of London. When supermarket shelves were stripped bare in early 2020, panic-buying became one of the most visible aspects of the Covid-19 crisis. But how did the media influence
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;
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