Reference
E/MS2/1/3
Title
File including the following:
Date free text
1982 - 1985
Production date
From: 1982 To: 1985
Scope and Content
- School Meals Service handbook on staffing of school kitchens and sculleries [1982];
- list of meat prices [1982];
- return of numbers of pupils taking paid meals, taking free meals and bringing sandwiches and numbers of teachers, kitchen assistants, supervisory assistants and other taking free and paid meals [1982];
- requests for additional supervisors at Linmear Middle School, Houghton Regis [1983]; Newnham Middle School, Bedford [1983]; Alban Voluntary Aided Middle School, Great Barford [1983]; Downside Lower School, Dunstable [1983]; Hitchmead Special School, Biggleswade [1983]; Glenwood Special School, Dunstable [1983]; and Brickhill Lower School, Bedford [1982];
- inquiry by Bedfordshire County Council O&M (Organisation & Methods?) Department into supervision of pupils during lunch time break, the following schools being selected as examples for study: Newnham Middle School Bedford, Alban Voluntary Aided Middle School, Great Barford, Springfield Lower School, Kempston and Linmear Middle School, Houghton Regis - material includes correspondence and the report itself [1983];
- establishment of a County Catering Service as part of the County Secretary’s Department, School Meals Service thus coming under that department’s control rather than the Education Department [1984];
- figures for the allocation of supervisory assistants to schools to work in lunch period [1984];
- O&M Study into supervisory assistants [1984];
- correspondence regarding reorganisation of County Catering Services including list of grades of posts following reorganisation [1984];
- School Meals Service supervisory assistants, draft reports, much amended, of County Catering Officer and Chief Education Officer [1984];
- detailed guidance to headteachers on entitlement to teachers’ free meals [1984];
- establishment of a training centre for County Catering Service at former lower school premises in Barton-le-Clay [1984];
- issue number one of Cooksnews a weekly news letter for school kitchen staff [1984];
- sample weekly menu for Infant/Junior and Lower Schools with guidance on food quantities and portion sizes in primary school meals for a trial period in certain schools [1984];
- letter to parents of Foxdell Infants School, Luton, explaining that the school was to be used for trials of new pricing and portion sizes [1985];
- issue of ethnic minority children not using a knife and fork to eat traditional ethnic dishes & County Catering Officer’s views on the subject [1985];
- Bedfordshire County Council press notice - Drive to Increase School Meals Take Up [1985];
- Bedfordshire County Council decision to return responsibility for School Meals Supervisors to Education Department from County Catering Service [1985];
- job description for post of School Meals Supervisory Assistant [1984];
- job description for post of Clerical Assistant responsible for monitoring the scheme to employ Supervisory Assistants in schools [1985];
- complaint of County Catering Officer regarding headteacher closing the school meals service for a day, without very much notice, due to lack of supervisory staff [1985].
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