Bristol Food Policy Council response to the proposed changes to the school curriculum. Our primary concern is that all schools be included without exception and recommend that where schools have yet to become fully equipped to provide cooking and food growing classes that they are supported and incentivised to do so and in the meanwhile are enabled to commission equivalent arrangements for practical cooking and food growing classes, including making use of existing community facilities.
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Four recent reports with implications for food policy work in Bristol (compiled by Joy Carey).
Council for the Protection of Rural England, ‘From Field to Fork: the value of England’s local food webs’, June 2012
Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and…