The School Meals Service - Past, Present and Future

Overview

This event showcases findings from our ESRC funded project on the school meals service. We will premiere a co-produced video produced to share a detail view of the project. We also aim to raise the awareness of the rise of food banks in schools. Over 4 million children in households are affected by food insecurity. The Food Foundation (2022) define food insecurity as those individuals and families who have limited or unreliable access to food due to the lack of financial resource. Schools are playing a critical role in combatting against food insecurity by operating food banks. This is an opportunity to join the debate and explore ways in which we can develop a call to action.

Schedule

17:30: Professor Diana Bannister - Welcome

17:40: ESRC School Meals Service, Short Film Premiere

17:55: The School Meals Service - Negotiating the classed, gendered and racialised school meals service - Dr Gurpinder Singh Lalli and Dr Ellen Bishop

18:35: Discussion and Q&A

19:00: Networking

Your participation would be appreciated: We are collecting donations for the local food bank
Urgent needed food items: Tinned fruit; long life fruit juice; tinned veg – peas/carrots/sweetcorn; puddings; coffee – small jars; long life milk; washing powder; washing up liquid; toilet rolls; razors and shaving foam; deodorant; shampoo and shower gel.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Location:
Our new Springfield site is a £120 million project which turned a 12-acre, Grade II listed former brewery into an architecture and built environment super-campus. University of Wolverhampton. Springfield Campus. Grimstone Street. Wolverhampton. WV10 0JR.
Room: SPB024

Contact:
Dr Gurpinder Singh Lalli ([email protected]) and Dr Ellen Bishop ([email protected]) School of Education, Centre for Research in Education and Social Transformation (CREST)
University of Wolverhampton

Host or Publisher University of Wolverhampton, School of Education