Operations and School Services

Get ready to meet the new School Food Standards

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Picture of Finn Morgan, Department for Education Commercial Lead for School Food, on a dark green background alongside text which reads: "These standards cover food across the school day including breakfast, breaks and lunchtime. They will become mandatory for all schools in England from the start of the next school year in September 2027."

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced a major update to the School Food Standards . This is the first change to the standards since their introduction more than a decade ago. These standards cover food across the school day including …

How Southwark Council used Get help buying for schools to transform catering procurement

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Image of catering staff serving food in a school kitchen alongside a quote from Gillian Boundy, Senior Public Health Programme Manager at Southwark Council, which reads: "The Get help buying for schools team have all been very professional and incredible flexible, paid great attention to detail and have educated me along the way."

An innovative collaboration with the Department for Education’s (DfE) Get help buying for schools (GHBS) service helped Southwark Council to set up its own bespoke school catering services framework — one that is already attracting wider interest across London. The …

'Slick and easy' cleaning services procurement with Get help buying for schools

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Picture of cleaning equipment in a school corridor, alongside a comment from Amery Hill Secondary School business manager, Nicola Wells, which reads: “Get help buying for schools saved me so much time as a school business manager. They support you through the whole process, and at no point did I feel like I was on my own.”

Nicola Wells is the school business manager at Amery Hill Secondary School – a single academy trust in Hampshire with approximately 1,000 students. Here she shares her experience of using Get help buying for schools to procure cleaning services for …