In February 2009, the Authority bid for funding of £1,150,000 from the above fund. This is part of the government's six year programme to bring about a transformation in the quality and provision of school food and increase school lunch take up. The bid was presented, as required, against one or more of the following four objectives and following expressions of interest made by individual schools:

1.	Improving the quality of the food
2.	Increasing the seating capacity of dining areas
3.	Improving the dining environment
4.	Decreasing queuing time

We were notified by DCSF in late May that all authorities who made a bid would be allocated around half of what they bid for. Norfolk has been allocated £580,515 subject to 50% matched funding being available and the submission of revised proposals to DCSF.

We plan to adopt an innovative three tiered approach in the allocation of this funding, as set out in our original bid. This will enable us to maximise the opportunity to match fund developments in schools within the timescale of this fund and to increase the impact across a greater number of schools and pupils. The revised level of funding available to us means that the work proposed under Tier 2 which significant numbers of schools expressed an interest in has had to be significantly reduced.

Allocation Approach

Tier 1 Condition priorities - improving kitchen and dining room facilities in three schools that are part of the Primary Capital Programme or the Authority's main capital programme - matched funding through LA local capital. £300,000 bid for in 2010-11

Tier 2 Five exemplar kitchen and dining room improvement projects, one in each Children's Services area - matched funding from schools' DFC. £165,000 bid for in 2010-11

Tier 3 Small grants funding pool that will allow a number of schools to bid to carry out minor changes that will have a direct impact on the uptake of school meals through improving the dining experience - matched funding from Transforming School Food monies. £115,515 bid for 2009-10

	Schools within Tier 1 are already known - Peterhouse Primary, Aldborough Primary and Horning Primary.
	The five examplar projects will be selected from the expressions of interest made in February, one in each Children's Services area, and will be subject to further scrutiny before funding is confirmed. These projects will need to show:- That 50% matched funding from the school is available. That the proposed schemes can bring about transformation in the quality and provision of school food and increase school lunch take up. Evidence of how this will be monitored will also be required. As examplars, a willingness to engage with and support other schools aiming to increase their school lunch take up. The affordability of the scheme being proposed.
	Further information on how to apply for Tier 3 funding will be sent to schools at the start of the Autumn Term 2009.

Officer Contacts
Adele Godsmark
Healthy Schools Programme Coordinator
01603 221812

Helen Bates
Capital Programme Manager
01603 638168