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07 February 2008
Today the School Food Trust, the organisation charged with transforming school food, will launch the School FEAST (Food Excellence And Skills Training) Network of centres and partnerships devoted to the ongoing training of school cooks.
Today the School Food Trust, the organisation charged with transforming school food, will launch the School FEAST (Food Excellence And Skills Training) Network of centres and partnerships devoted to the ongoing training of school cooks.
Prue Leith, Chair of the Trust will be joined by Raymond Blanc, chef at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons and Lord Bilimoria CBE, DL, Chancellor of Thames Valley University (TVU) when the 13 existing centres, including TVU, will be officially launched. Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families will confirm the continued funding of the School Food Trust and announce further funding to extend the Network and promote innovation. Furthermore the Secretary of State will announce three further School FEAST centres and partnerships that have been successful in the original round of applications.
Prue Leith, Chair of The School Food Trust said today:
“I am delighted to be officially launching the School FEAST network today. It’s particularly fabulous to be rolling my sleeves up and preparing a meal with some of the cooks already training at TVU, one of the School FEAST centres. School cooks play such a vital role in the health and wellbeing of our children. The School Feast network will help provide them with the training and skills they need to progress. ”
The School FEAST Network brings together existing providers of excellence and new and innovative training centres. All centres and partnerships will provide a range of training and development opportunities for the school food workforce. Each will have the flexibility to deliver specialist training to this diverse group.
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families said:
“School cooks are the heartbeat of our school food revolution – transforming lunches and children’s health. They deserve the best training – they do highly skilled jobs giving millions of children nutritious dinners every single school day. These centres and our continued funding means they can brush up their skills or learn new ones, so they can prepare meals for their whole schools from healthy, fresh ingredients."
