Universal Infant Free School Meals
•Introduction
•Background to UIFSM
•Chartwells
•Contracts Management Team
•Finance
•Questions
UIFSM Background
• Sept 2013 Nick Clegg announced UIFSM for all KS1
Pupils
• Why?
• Increase the number of pupils who eat a healthy school
lunch and develop positive eating habits
• Improve pupil’s health, attainment and behaviour
through better nutrition and social interaction
• Ease pressure on family budgets
• Support the economic viability of school meals
Chartwells
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School Surveys
Ongoing
Appoint UIFSM project manager
Completed
Order appropriate light equipment
Completed
Ascertain volumes and submit to suppliers
Completed
Meet with suppliers and agree deliveries
Completed
Labour establishments – review needs with AT
Completed
Flyers – Head Teachers and Parents
June
Run 2 Day UIFSM School Partnership Trials
June –July
Recruitment - advertise internally and externally
June - July
Interviews – register employees & confirm start date July – Aug
Induction/training
August
Menu - no change until Oct half term
September
(Menu A3 poster reprinted for school reception)
UIFSM – What does this mean to us?
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We have assumed 80% pupils will take up the offer
Represents an additional 6,000 meals per day
Approx 1.2 million more meals per year
Impact on kitchen equipment and storage
Impact on deliveries
Need for increased hours and staffing where appropriate
Put pressure on the lunch breaks, queues, number of
sittings and dining space
Contracts Management Team
• Allocation of Capital Funding from DfE
• Survey of kitchens and assessment of meal numbers
in each school
• Project management of kitchen upgrades
• Purchase of light equipment and distribution
• Communication to schools and parents
• Training on new equipment (Training days)
Communications
Pupil Premium
Funding and Finance
• £2.30 per meal for new eligible UIFSM
• KS2 meal price increase 1st August 2014
• Small Schools Transitional Funding
Revenue Payments
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The DfE are introducing a new indicator on the Schools Census in Oct 2014
which will enable schools to state how many newly eligible are taking up a
school meal.
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Schools will be notified of their provisional full year revenue funding allocation
for the 2014-15 academic year in June 2014, pending information from the
DfE, with the first payment being made in September 2014. This will provide
funding for the Autumn 2014 and Spring 2015 terms. This allocation will be
based upon pupil data from the January 2014 School Census as well as
assumptions that: 87% of newly eligible pupils will take up meals and those
pupils will take 190 school meals in the course of a full academic year
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This provisional allocation will be revised later in the academic year based on
actual take-up data derived from an average of the October 2014 and
January 2015 School Censuses and the Summer term payment will be
adjusted accordingly based upon the actual take-up above or below the 87%
Contracts Management Team - Schools
Brendan Griffin-Ryan
Principal Client Officer
01273 482520 / 07825 358 358
brendan.griffin-ryan@eastsussex.gov.uk
Josie Britton
Senior Client Officer
01273 482585 / 07803 179 258
josie.britton@eastsussex.gov.uk
Claire Dunk
Revenue Officer
01273 481334
claire.dunk@eastsussex.gov.uk
Claire Smith
Client Officer - West
01273 482984 / 07803 899 384
claire.smith@eastsussex.gov.uk
Sarah Stechler
Client Officer - East
07803 500 276 / 01273 482934
sarah.stechler@eastsussex.gov.uk
Pat Mason
Assistant Client Officer – West
01273 481930 / 07825 782 786
patricia.mason@eastsussex.gov.uk
Simon Hobbs
Assistant Client Officer – East
01273 481552 / 07879 117 400
simon.hobbs@eastsussex.gov.uk