Paper of the Month: School food standards in the UK

The April Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘School food standards in the UK: implementation and evaluation’. Below is the author's blog entry and a link to view the full paper. In January 2012, the Children’s Food Trust hosted an international workshop on school food to examine the relationships between evidence and policy. Fifty delegates from over 20 countries met to present papers, discuss and debate key issues, and make recommendations that strengthen global commitment to improving the evidence base that helps to inform policy development and evaluate policy impact. The first session of the workshop set out the issues relating to policy development and evaluation in three countries: the United States, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. Each presentation illustrated key features of the country’s policy and evidence base. Because of the recent evolution of policy in the four countries of the United Kingdom since 2000 and the many parallels and differences between them, the paper by Adamson et al describes the contrasting approaches to the development of standards, their implementation, and gathering of evidence to inform policy within ostensibly similar settings. The paper provides an overview of relevant policies, surveys and evaluations, including country specific surveys and regional evaluations relating to school food programmes in primary and secondary schools in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Irela...
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