Education

The one year rolling contract, worth £80,000 per annum, began at the start of the new school year and is now the third satellite school the hub kitchen prepares food for.

To be in with a chance of winning all they need to do is go online at www.vivamilk.co.uk and enter their unique Viva carton code.

The team beat off competition from East Dunbartonshire, Kirklees, Liverpool, Manchester, North Lincolnshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire councils to scoop the award.

The council introduced the £1 offer in January to encourage more children to enjoy a healthy hot meal. Cutting the price to £1, from £1.80 in 2009, has seen the take-up of dinners shoot up.

This follows statistics released this week from the Association of Public Health Observatories showing that the UK is the fattest member of the EU and the West Midlands has the highest percentage of o

Education Leeds launched a pilot in secondary schools earlier this year to make free school meals available from break time so young people could choose to eat healthy food when they were hungry and n

School kitchens could get through more than 60,000 turkey breast roasting joints, 4.4 million roast potatoes and 150,000 litres of gravy as they offer healthy turkey lunches to children before the end

The contract, which will provide catering services to 51 schools in Camden as well as the council's canteen, will initially run for five years from April 2011 with the option for extension.

The award recognised the work carried out at St Stephens School in Twickenham, a Food for Life Flagship school. To achieve the gold, Pride had to show that two-thirds of its food offering is freshly p

The event is taking place at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith and the Keynote Speaker is the Shadow Education Minister, Sharon Hodgson MP. We look at some of the concerns raised by LACA.