LACA chair makes Public Sector Catering’s ‘Most Influential’ list
After shadowing Brad Pearce as vice chair of LACA, Brown stepped up to become the chair of the school food organisation in September 2023.
In her day job Anita is service manager at Stockton on Tees Borough Council. She started as a school cook in what she calls ‘the days of endless budgets and no standards’. The council provides school meals to 50 schools and academies that serve a diverse community.
On recently taking the helm at LACA she said: “I am committed to supporting the great work of our frontline services. We are still in difficult times with the cost of living crisis, problems with recruitment and added pressures coming from our food supplies – they are all still impacting us, day in day out.
“I will campaign for increased funding to at least match across the four nations in order for us all to deliver the great school meals provision to all pupils.”
Brown was named on the list alongside Christopher Ross, chair of Assist FM; Alexia Robinson, founder of Love British Food; Robin Mills, managing director of Compass UK & Ireland; Nadim & Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, founders of the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation as well as Cathy Amos, head of customer marketing at Brakes.