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Increasing School Meal Uptake in Portsmouth

Increasing School Meal Uptake in Portsmouth. Mavis Ames Manager, Health Improvement & Development Service Portsmouth City Council. Increasing School Meal Take Up in Portsmouth.

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Increasing School Meal Uptake in Portsmouth

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  1. Increasing School Meal Uptake in Portsmouth Mavis Ames Manager, Health Improvement & Development Service Portsmouth City Council

  2. IncreasingSchool Meal Take Up in Portsmouth • A partnership project between the local authority project team and the School Food Trust Local Authority Targeted Support Team • Aim: to increase the take up of school meals across Portsmouth • Timescale: September 2010 - March 2011

  3. Why Portsmouth? • A willingness to work with the SFT to improve take up • Recommendation by GOSE

  4. School Meal Delivery in Portsmouth • 51 primary schools (2 in house) • 10 secondary schools (5 in house) • Contracted to Eden • 37 production kitchens • No school food team separate to LA catering provision

  5. Initial Steps • Offer letter • An initial meeting - May 2010 • Meeting with councillors • Initial diagnostic and stakeholder mapping exercises • Stakeholder Workshop

  6. Stakeholders • Director of Children's Services • School Services Manager • Head of Health Improvement and Development Service • Manager of Health Improvement and Development Service • Managing director, Eden • Healthy Schools Coordinator & PSHE Advisor • Consultant in Public Health & Development Manager, Public Health • Head teacher representation • Head of governors • Parent governors x 2 • Extended schools manager • Pupil representation • Councillor

  7. Stakeholder Workshop • Pupil Engagement • Parent Engagement • Meal Quality • Meal Cost / Value • School Food Strategy and Policy • Marketing & Communication • Training Key priorities identified:

  8. Action Plan • Strategic • School food strategy Policy for food in early years • School food policy/guide Data collection • 2.Marketing/Communication • Marketing strategy Market research • Taster sessions Transition • 3.Training/Learning • Food Quality Support growing in schools • Lunchtime supervisors Cookery classes

  9. Reporting and Progress • Monthly reporting to SFT • Data collection • Engagement at a strategic level • Marketing – the need for a more joined up approach identified • Training/learning – zip and steam trial, lunchtime supervisors training, support with growing in schools

  10. Next Steps • Complete 6 month programme • Evaluation by SFT • Sustainability • Identify opportunities for new catering contract

  11. Final Thoughts • Positive process • Helped place a focus on school meals • School meal agenda raised at strategic level • Improved partnership working • Structures and systems being created • Utilising existing capacity • Highlighted and harnessed passion and commitment that already existed

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