The Education (Nutritional Standards for School Lunches) (England) Regulations 2006
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2006/2381 |
2006 No. 2381
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (Nutritional Standards for School Lunches) (England) Regulations 2006
Made 4th September 2006
Laid before Parliament 8th September 2006
Coming into force 11th September 2006
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 114(1) and (4) and 138(7) and (8) of the School Standards and Framework Act 19981the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Regulations—
Citation, commencement and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Nutritional Standards for School Lunches) (England) Regulations 2006 and come into force on 11th September 2006.
(2) These Regulations shall apply to schools maintained by a local education authority in England, except nursery schools and nursery units within primary schools.
Interpretation.
2. In these Regulations—
“the 2003 Regulations” means the Meat Products (England) Regulations 20032;
“day” means a school day;
“food” includes drink;
“low calorie” in relation to any food means that the food so described contains no more than 40 calories in each portion;
“meat” has the meaning assigned to it by Directive 2000/13/ECof the European Parliament and the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs3, as amended by Commission Directive 2001/101/EC4;
“meat product” has the same meaning as in the 2003 Regulations;
“portion” means an amount of a particular food made available to an individual as part of a meal; and
“week” means Monday to Friday.
Food groups
3.—(1) Food covered by these Regulations shall be divided into the groups shown in the Schedule.
(2) Food included in the groups must be made available as part of a school lunch in schools maintained by local education authorities, except for nursery units within primary schools, in accordance with the following requirements.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations a pupil referral unit shall be treated as either a primary or a secondary school according to whether the majority of registered pupils are of primary or secondary age at the commencement of each school year.
4.—(1) Not less than two portions each day must be available of food from group A, at least one of which must be salad, vegetables or vegetable juice and at least one of which must be fruit, fruit salad or fruit juice.
(2) A fruit-based dessert (with a content of at least 50% fruit measured by the weight of the raw ingredients) must be available at least twice each week in primary schools.
5.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (5) below, a food from group B must be available every day.
(2) Red meat must be available at least twice each week in primary schools, and at least three times each week in secondary schools.
(3) Fish must be available at least once each week in primary schools and at least twice each week in secondary schools.
(4) Fish required to be made available by paragraph (3) must at least once every three weeks be oily fish.
(5) In primary schools a dairy source of protein may be made available in place of a food from group B.
6.—(1) Food from group C may only be made available infrequently.
(2) An economy burger as described in Schedule 2 to the 2003 Regulations and any other shaped product comprising a mixture of meat and other ingredients which is not included in the reserved descriptions specified in that Schedule may only be made available if it complies with the meat content requirements for “Burger” in that Schedule.
(3) No meat product shall be made available if it contains any carcase part listed in regulation 6(2) of the 2003 Regulations, subject to the exception in regulation 6(3) of those Regulations.
7.—(1) A type of bread and another food from group D must be available every day.
(2) A food from group D which has been cooked in fat or oil must not be made available more than three days in a week.
(3) On each day when a food from group D cooked in fat or oil is available, a food (other than bread) from group D not so cooked must also be available.
A food from group E must be available every day.
8. A food from group E must be available every day.
Drinks
9.—(1) Only the drinks included in group F may be provided as part of a school lunch, except that whole milk may be provided for pupils up to the end of the school year in which...
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