LACA chair to join Hot School Meals webinar
05 Mar 2021
LACA chair Stephen Forster will join Public Sector Catering to investigate whether hot school meals should become a compulsory service.
After the first lockdown the full hot meals service took months to return and was still only at an estimated 80-85% by Christmas.
David Foad, editor of Public Sector Catering, will be asking the ‘four nations’ how and when we should aim to return to 100% hot meals after the current lockdown.
The panel for the webinar includes:
- England - Stephen Forster, national chair of LACA
- Northern Ireland - Stephen Briggs, head of service - Catering, Education Authority of Northern Ireland
- Scotland - Jayne Jones, chair of ASSIST
- Wales - Judith Gregory, regional chair of LACA Wales
In Autumn 2020 many school caterers adopted LACA’s Hot’ober campaign to get their children eating ‘hot food’ again. LACA’s latest initiative – 'Marching Back To School' – has been created to encourage conversations between caterers, on site staff and parents, to facilitate the return of hot lunches as soon as everyone feels it safe to do so.
If you are interested in the 11 March webinar, sign up here.