A welcome feast for school cooks centre
DONCASTER is to be the site of new £200,000 centre dedicated to training school cooks in preparing healthy meals.
It is one of eight centres announced by The School Food Trust and will be called a FEAST centre - Food Excellence and Skills Training. It will be based at Doncaster College's Doncaster Waterfront headquarters.
The centre will have a training kitchen for the whole region with a practical area for up to 16 cooks to train at once.
It will be intended to provide cooks with the skills they need to ensure school meals are of the highest quality and meet nutritional standards, and is expected to be up and running by the middle of next year.Doncaster health bosses are delighted the facility is coming to the town.
Doncaster Primary Care Trust acting chief executive Christine Boswell said: "We are keen to see Doncaster's young people enjoy a healthy diet from an early age so I am delighted this new partnership will support our drive to keep youngsters fit and healthy."
Mayor Martin Winter described receiving the funding for the scheme as a fantastic achievement.
Prue Leith, chair of the School Food Trust, said: "Training school cooks is essential to improving the quality of the food served within schools.
"Serving high-quality as well as nutritionally sound food will result in more children eating the new healthy school meals, and I hope it will encourage schools in this area to allow their cooks to come on a course.
"School cooks, just like teachers and doctors, need to keep up their skills and their enthusiasm."
The new centres will be established in Doncaster, Sunderland, Manchester, Lancashire, Worcester, the East Midlands, and two in the South East.
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