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Tower Hamlets School Food Accountability Policy

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A new policy introduced by Tower Hamlets Council to embed a continuous cycle of school food improvement, maintain high standards of food quality, and ensure transparency. This policy aims to improve the quality and uptake of free school meals by embedding a continuous cycle of improvement and ensuring transparency. It is aimed at embedding a continuous cycle of school food improvement, maintaining high standards, and promoting meal take-up in schools. It ensures accountability in the provision of school food and includes enhanced Conditions of Grant, which all schools will be asked to sign up to, as part of the Free School Meals Action Plan. The policy ensures every child receives a nutritious meal and requires all schools to sign up to enhanced Conditions of Grant to better hold schools and caterers to account regarding free school meals, ensuring continuous improvement and support for eligible free school meal pupils.

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