As consultation on school food reform continues, the conversation is becoming increasingly focused on implementation. Schools and trusts are beginning to consider what proposed changes could mean for catering services, budgets, staffing and long-term operational delivery.

Matriculate Consulting has joined The Barns Group, bringing together a wider network of specialist expertise across catering, cleaning and associated support services for the education sector.

“Choosing a consultant or procurement organisation to sort out catering is difficult because they all seem the same” This is about as accurate as saying

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch” (or “free” frameworks or “free” buying organisations/clubs) A “free lunch” is believed to refer to the nineteenth-century