Funding Will Support Pupils To Learn Healthy Food Habits
Derbyshire County Council is supporting a project designed to encourage school pupils to learn about where their food comes from, how to cook it and how to develop healthy eating habits.
The council is providing £70,000 to continue rolling out the Food for Life programme - a national project bringing schools and communities together around the idea of healthy, tasty and sustainable food.
Food for Life is about much more than just the food on your plate, it works to change the way we think about food by encouraging children to learn where their food comes from, how it is grown and how to prepare healthy, balanced meals.
Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Communities, Councillor Carol Hart said: “With growing rates of obesity in the UK it is vital that we give children the knowledge and understanding of where their food comes from and how to develop healthy eating habits from an early age.”
The Food for Life programme has two core elements:
• To support working with school catering clusters to transform the whole school food culture and help schools to achieve the FFL School Award (bronze, silver or gold).
• To support Derbyshire County Council’s catering services to maintain the Silver FFL Catering Mark across Primary Schools and Bronze across secondary schools. The FFL Catering Marks are nationally recognised standards, developed to reflect best practice in healthy and sustainable school meals.
Cllr Hart added: “Food for Life supports schools to carry out a wide range of activities including growing their own food; organising trips to farms; sourcing food from local producers; setting up school farmers’ markets and providing cooking and growing clubs for pupils and their families.
“All of this is designed to encourage a sustainable approach to food that will help young people develop a lifelong appreciation of good food and healthy diets.”
There are 81 schools in Derbyshire currently taking part in the Food for Life project and it is hoped that more schools will sign up to take part.
Independent evaluation of the programme shows that some of the benefits include:
• Pupils in FFL schools were twice as likely to eat five or more portions of fruit and vegetables per day than those in comparison schools
• Pupils in FFL schools were about 40% more likely to ‘like’ or ‘really like’ school meals
• Pupils in FFL schools eat approximately a third more fruit and vegetables than those in comparison schools.
To find out more about the Food for Life project email Jackie.wagstaff@derbyshire.gov.uk
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