The Health Education Trust

School Nutrition Action Groups (SNAG) are school based alliances in which staff, pupils and caterers, supported by health and education professionals work together to review and expand the range of food and drink in order to increase the uptake of a healthier diet and ensure consistent messages from the curriculum and the food service.

This isacheived via:
the tuck shop
vending machines
the midday meal
catering at social functions
breakfast provision

Keep up to date with the latest SNAG activities throughout the country. Healthedtrust.com will bring you more direct news and information to help you develop school food policies in your own areas.

SNAG Newswill continue on line and news of recent SNAG initiatives and SNAG success stories will be posted here for everyone
to benefit.

SNAG Archives
– All back issues of SNAG news are here for easy reference in the SNAG archives -take as look to see for yourself just how far school food policy issues have evolved over the last few years. Or search through our topic contents to take you to relevant articles.

Active Advice – Our advice line has offered guidance and encouragement of a broad range of callers from contract caterers to concerned parents. This service is now to everyone through our Active Advice page.

Recent SNAG success stories – Send us your experiences with school food policy development and SNAG related issues and we’ll post here or include within the next issue of SNAG Newsonline. Help guide others to developing healthy food initiatives by sharing your own successes and failures.

The Chips are Downis a comprehensive guide to food policy in schools, jointly produced by the Health Education Trust and the Design Dimension Educational Trust. The publication emphasises the essential role and power of partnerships in improving standards and meeting young people’s needs. Aimed at health and education professionals, caterers and parents, it will enable the development and delivery of a better quality food service while encouraging the ownership and involvement of young people who are the customers.