LACA Member Login
Dates for your Diary:
08-09-10
HACCP ‘Making it Work’
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
09-09-10
South West: Regional Committee Meeting
09-09-10
West Midlands: Committee meeting
13-09-10
Auditing Skills
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
15-09-10
London & South East Committee Meeting
15-09-10
London & South East Committee Meeting
20-09-10
Yorkshire and Humberside: Committee Meeting
20-09-10
RSPH Level 3 Award in Supervising Food Safety
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
22-09-10
School Food: Healthy Children, Healthy Minds
Central London, 09:00 - 14:00 (half day)
27-09-10
Training the Trainer
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
29-09-10
Welsh: Regional Meeting
04-10-10
HACCP ‘Taking it Further’
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
11-10-10
RSPH Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety
Broughton Hall Business Park, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 3AE
12-10-10
Welsh: Regional Committee Meeting
13-10-10
Yorkshire and Humberside: Regional Event
14-10-10
West Midlands: Training Seminar afternoon
Welcome to the Local Authority Caterers Association Website!
Since inception, LACA, now LACA Ltd has set out to inform, develop, represent and support its members through a range of initiatives and services. It is a professional body representing 800 catering managers and over 100,000 staff employed in nearly 20,000 schools that provide services to Local Authorities in England, Scotland and Wales. The Northern Ireland region is currently dormant. The membership of LACA Ltd is diverse, and includes Public and Private Sector Providers, Client Officers, Dieticians and individual schools, as well as a body of Associate Members who are jointly responsible for the supply of over £425m worth of food and equipment to the school catering service.
News
2 September 2010
200 schools and counting – all set for celebrity School Cooks competition
More than 200 schools have already signed up for television chef Simon Rimmer's School Cooks competition – and hundreds more are expected to register for the na… More…
1 September 2010
Eden Foodservice entices Truro pupils to eat at school with new healthier menu
The school catering company, Eden Foodservice, is getting Autumn term off to a positive start with the launch of its new menu which will focus more attention on… More…
27 August 2010
Pupils who get free school meals miss out on best schools, say Barnardo's
The children's charity Barnardo's has spoken out in defence of poorer children – including those that are entitled to free school meals – as being at a disadvan… More…
LACA Award winners 2010
Local authority caterers across the UK celebrated the success of colleagues when the 2010 Awards were handed out at the LACA Gala Dinner.
In what proved the high point of the Local Authority Caterers' Association annual conference held at Hilton Birmingham Metropole some of the industry's best performers were recognised by their peers.
Click here to take a look at the LACA Awards 2010 photo gallery.
LACA calls on government to sustain school meals funding
The Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA) has sent 649 new Members of Parliament a letter calling on them to get behind the school meals service to safeguard the future health of the next generation and help stem a spiralling NHS bill.
LACA has asked MPs that they give their support to the school meals service when schools start back in September. LACA's National School Meals Week (November 8 – 12) which focuses on the theme 'Get Involved', is also urging MPs to pay a visit to one of their local schools and witness at first hand the improvements that have taken place in school food over the last five years.
Click here to take a look at the LACA Chair's letter to MP's.
National School Meals Week
NSMW, which takes place from Monday 8th November to Friday 12th November 2010, provides an excellent platform for school caterers to increase school meal numbers and promote the benefits and importance of healthy eating to young children and their parents. In 2009 market research showed that where meal numbers had increased the average was 7.8%.
This annual event run by LACA will continue to be an online campaign after the success achieved last year. Each day there will be a different theme and more information will be available at www.iloveschoolmeals.co.uk
LACA’s School Chef of the Year 2011
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LACA’s School Chef of the Year (SCOTY) is the only dedicated culinary competition especially tailored for our industry. It was established and is managed by school caterers for school caterers.
It has grown over the years into a significant, highly professional and widely respected annual event and all participants, not just the winners, have achieved wide recognition and kudos within their authorities, schools and local communities. In many cases, winners have gone on to enhance their careers as a result of School Chef of the Year.
To both accommodate the growth in the Competition and to reflect the format of other high profile professional catering competitions, you will see that School Chef of the Year 2011 has an exciting new format, so please take time to read through the 2011 Participation Pack and Entry Pack below.
Participation Pack 2011
Entry Pack 2011 (This is a zip file)
Please note: there has been a change to the costings of some of the Nestle ingredients. Please use the information in this entry pack link for costings when compiling your menus.
