Schools
The Agency carries out many activities to help encourage schools to adopt a 'whole school' approach to diet and nutrition and to help young people better understand the relationship between diet and health, help them make more informed food choices and gain the skills to safely prepare healthy meals.
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Food competences framework
The food competences framework is intended to help schools and community-based organisations provide children and young people with the foundation to make healthy food choices now and into adulthood.
Cooking Bus
The Food Standards Agency Cooking Bus has been developed in partnership with the Focus on Food Campaign to get across healthy eating and food safety messages to school children in an engaging way.
Food and cookery clubs
'What's cooking?' is a practical guide to setting up and running community and school food clubs. It's aimed at anyone who would like to help young people choose, cook and eat safe, healthy food.
Cookit
Cookit is a set of cooking equipment and utensils developed for primary schools by the Focus on Food Campaign, with the support of the Food Standards Agency.
Food handling, preparation and serving in the classroom
Some teachers already attend training courses around food safety to support their teaching practices. Attendance on such training courses is considered best practice. There is, however, no legal requirement for teachers, staff, parents and volunteers who prepare and cook food in the classroom to attend a formal training course or to obtain a qualification in food safety.
School council network
The Food Standards Agency has developed a school council network with nine schools across England. The main purpose of the network is to listen and understand the views of children and young people, especially in relation to food.
Teaching tools
Teaching resources developed to help primary school teachers throughout the UK.
Working with school governors
The Agency has been working with school governors in considering their role in relation to the diet of children and young people.