Schools
The Agency carries out many activities to help encourage schools to adopt a 'whole school' approach to diet and nutrition and to help young people better understand the relationship between diet and health, help them make more informed food choices and gain the skills to safely prepare healthy meals.
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Food competences for young people
Food competences can help young people to choose, cook and eat safe healthy food. The food competences are set out as a framework of core skills and knowledge for children and young people. This helps to set out the essential building blocks so that schools and community-based organisations can provide young people with a consistent set of food skills and knowledge.
Teaching tools
Resources developed to help teachers throughout the UK enable young people to learn how to choose, cook and eat safe healthy food.
Food handling, preparation and serving in the classroom
Some teachers already attend training courses around food safety to support their teaching practices. Attendance on such training courses is considered best practice. There is, however, no legal requirement for teachers, staff, parents and volunteers who prepare and cook food in the classroom to attend a formal training course or to obtain a qualification in food safety.
School council network
The Food Standards Agency has developed a school council network with nine schools across England. The main purpose of the network is to listen and understand the views of children and young people, especially in relation to food.
Advice for school governors
The Agency has been working in partnership with the National Governors' Association (NGA) to help school governors in considering their role in relation to the diet of children and young people.