Other West Midlands Groups with a Food remit
There are a wide range of partners working across the region to support the school food agenda these include:
Working with local authorities to understand how best to engage, enthuse and support schools in generating a whole school culture of sustainability.
Email: mary.burton@wmsustainableschools.org.uk
A network of West Midlands Healthy Schools Co-ordinators who meet on a termly basis.
Email: emma.balchin@gowm.gsi.gov.uk
LACA is the professional body representing 1000 catering managers and suppliers who provide catering services to all sectors of Local Authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. Local authority caterers are responsible for providing more than 2.5 million school meals a day, civic catering such as town halls and leisure centres, for social services catering such as residential homes for the elderly, day centres and meals on wheels.
Email: Jackie.Campbell@dudley.gov.uk
The Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative (PSFPI), is a government policy with the following key objectives:
- Promoting food safety, including high standards of hygiene
- Increase consumption of healthy and nutritious food
- Improving sustainability and efficiency of production, processing and distribution
- Increasing tenders from small and local producers and their ability to do business
- Increasing co-operation among buyers, suppliers and along the supply chain
- Improving sustainability and efficiency of food procurement and catering services
In the West Midlands Government Office for the West Midlands work in partnership with Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership and others to deliver these aims. The follow websites include further information and a wealth of documents for both buyers and suppliers available to download.
For further information please contact Moira Cullen
Email: moira.cullen@gowm.gsi.gov.uk
A national initiative for primary schools funded by The DCSF. The Food in Schools primary training programme provides teachers with the opportunity to enhance and develop their knowledge, skills and understanding about food and cooking in the primary curriculum.
Email: Paul.drury@data.org.uk
Think Food and Farming is a long-term project led by Farming and Countryside Education (FACE) whose primary aim is to educate children and young people about food and farming in a sustainable countryside. This legacy project will build on all the successes of the Year of Food and Farming and continue to promote healthy living by offering young people direct experience of the countryside, farming and food.
Think Food and Farming activities and resources will support curriculum teaching and offer memorable hands-on learning experiences.
Email: David.howatson@gowm.gsi.gov.uk
FFLP is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. Schools can become either a Partnership school or Flagship school by enrolling online www.foodforlife.org.uk. The Food for Life Partnership will work with enrolled schools and communities to help them to achieve a bronze, silver or gold Food for Life Partnership award.
Email: AO'Sullivan@soilassociation.org
Let’s Get Cooking is a 5 year, £20 million programme, supported by the BIG Lottery Fund, to set up a network of 5,000 cooking clubs across England. Two regional co-ordinators are working to establish clubs across the West Midlands.
Email: laura.needham@sft.gsi.gov.uk
A West Midlands wide regional network of infant feeding co-ordinators to guide best practice in relation to the protection promotion and support for breastfeeding and in relation to risk reduction of artifical feeding. Add capacity and capability to activities that should be prioritised including providing regional leadership and support to local areas to deliver through LAAs.
The group reports to the central DH chaired National Network of Infant Feeding Co-ordinators.
West Midlands Regional Infant Feeding Co-ordinator: caroline.mansell@nhs.net
For West Midlands locality infant feeding co-ords see contacts section of www.wmpho.org.uk/infantfeeding
CEnTSA are committed to ensuring effective partnership working between local authorities across Central England to achieve measurable improvements in Trading Standards for all those who may benefit.
Contact: Nick Harrison, Regional Co-ordinator
Email: nickharrison@warwickshire.gov.uk
ContinYou is one of the UK's leading community learning organisations.
We aim to offer opportunities to people who have gained the least from formal education and training. We work with a range of professional people, organisations and agencies to enhance what they do to change lives through learning.
ContinYou's work demonstrates the links between all the areas in which learning can make a healthy difference to people's lives.
MISSION NUTRITION
ContinYou has been chosen to be one of the charity partners to work with Blue Peter on this year's Blue Peter appeal, Mission Nutrition
Mission Nutrition is raising money to provide children and young people across the world with better nutrition.
SKILLED FOR HEALTH
Skilled for Health (SfH) is the national programme that embeds Skills for Life into health improvement topics. It aims to address both the low skills and health inequalities prevalent within traditionally disadvantaged communities.