•Introduction

•Background to UIFSM

•Chartwells

•Contracts Management Team

•Finance

•Questions

Universal Infant Free School Meals

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

• 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?

• 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 • 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.

• 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

• 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 - SchoolsBrendan Griffin-RyanPrincipal Client Officer01273 482520 / 07825 358 358brendan.griffin-ryan@eastsussex.gov.uk

Josie BrittonSenior Client Officer01273 482585 / 07803 179 258josie.britton@eastsussex.gov.uk

Claire SmithClient Officer - West01273 482984 / 07803 899 384claire.smith@eastsussex.gov.uk

Sarah StechlerClient Officer - East07803 500 276 / 01273 482934sarah.stechler@eastsussex.gov.uk

Pat MasonAssistant Client Officer – West01273 481930 / 07825 782 786patricia.mason@eastsussex.gov.uk

Claire DunkRevenue Officer01273 481334claire.dunk@eastsussex.gov.uk

Simon HobbsAssistant Client Officer – East01273 481552 / 07879 117 400simon.hobbs@eastsussex.gov.uk