Food and drink in schools

Guidance and services

• Find out about free school meals
  Check if your child can get free school meals and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
• Universal Primary Free School Meals (UPFSM)
  Find out how we will roll out free school meals to all primary pupils in Wales.
• Free school meals: information for parents and carers
  Check if your child can get free school meals.
• Free school meals: information for schools
  Includes information on who may be entitled to free school meals and how to apply.
• Healthy lunchboxes: leaflet
  Suggestions for parents and carers on what foods to include in a healthy packed lunch.
• The use of emergency adrenaline auto-injectors in schools
  How to produce a policy for the use of emergency adrenaline auto-injectors in schools.
• Milk for primary school children
  A poster to display in schools about milk production and why it is good for you.
• Healthy eating in maintained schools: statutory guidance
  Guidance for local authorities and governing bodies on how to promote healthy eating in schools.
• Free breakfast in primary schools: statutory guidance
  Guidance for local authorities and governing bodies on the free breakfast in primary schools scheme.
• Free breakfast in primary schools: information for parents and carers
  Includes information on who can have one and what to do if your school doesn't provide them.
• Get help with school costs: promotional toolkits for schools and local authorities
  Promotional materials that can be used to let parents and guardians know about the financial help available for school essentials, including free school meals.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Wales) Regulations: equality impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An assessment of how the regulations on healthy eating in schools affect equality of opportunity.
• Holiday free school meals impact assessment
  Policy and strategy
  This impact assessment assesses the potential impact of the holiday Free School Meal provision.