Resources and Links

These resources are website links or files which could be used to:

  • make a resource or lesson
  • help you find out more about food, school meals, health and sustainability

Institute of Child Nutrition – Institute of Child Nutrition Resource Centre

National Food Service Management Institute Resource Centre provides access to the Institute’s wide array of education and training material, research, newsletters, and other online resources. Web seminars: ICN Resource Center

Beat Website

The beat website provides helplines, online support and a network of UK-wide self-help groups to help adults and young people in the UK beat their eating disorders.

British Council Schools

British Council Schools connect the UK’s school sector to others around the world to enrich education, promote global citizenship and build international trust and understanding. \

British Nutrition Foundation

The British Nutrition Foundation delivers authoritative, evidence-based information on food and nutrition in the context of health and lifestyle.

Children in Scotland

Children in Scotland is the national agency for voluntary, statutory and professional organisations and individuals working with children and their families in Scotland.

Countryside Classroom

Countryside Classroom helps teachers to find resources, places to visit and school support relating to the themes of food, farming and the natural environment. Our site contains a range of quality assured educational content from hundreds of contributors. Countryside Classroom is a managed by a partnership of organisations that represent the very best in food, […]

Education Scotland

Education Scotland is a key national body supporting quality and improvement in Scottish education.

Eating Disorders Awareness

Find out how to get help and support

Good Food Nation

The Good Foo Nation policy set a new vision for Scotland: that by 2025 Scotland will be “a Good Food Nation, where people from every walk of life take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they produce, buy, cook, serve, and eat each day.”

Lead Association for Catering in Education (LACA)

Since inception in 1989, LACA has set out to inform, develop, represent and support its members through a range of initiatives and services. The Association represents the School Food Industry and membership is open to all parties who make a contribution to this market sector – providers (public and private sector) client officers, consultants, suppliers […]

Mary’s Meals

Mary’s Meals provides one good meal to some of the world’s poorest children every school day.

Nutrition education materials for educators, food service professionals and families

Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.

School Food Matters

The School Food Matters website is for anyone who cares about school food and food education. Here you will find evidence of why school food matters, great examples of best practice and fun ideas to get children cooking and growing and out onto a farm.

School Nutrition Association

The School Nutrition Association (SNA) is a national, nonprofit professional organisation representing more than 55,000 members who provide high-quality, low-cost meals to students across the country. Recognised as the authority on school nutrition, SNA has been advancing the availability, quality and acceptance of school nutrition programs as an integral part of education since 1946

US National Food Service Management Institute: Building the Future through Child Nutrition

The Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN), part of the School of Applied Sciences at The University of Mississippi, is the only federally funded national center dedicated to applied research, education and training, and technical assistance for child nutrition programs. The Institute was established by Congress in the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989.

USDA Choose MyPlate.gov

MyPlate is a reminder to find your healthy eating style and build it throughout your lifetime. Everything you eat and drink matters. The right mix can help you be healthier now and in the future. This means: Focus on variety, amount, and nutrition. Choose foods and beverages with less saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars.

USDA Healthy Meals Resource System

An online information center for USDA Child Nutrition Programs

USDA Team Nutrition

Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.

The Vegan Society

The Society offers resources and advice to support healthy lives.

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