School Food Trust CEO - a poisoned chalice?
While we wait for the announcement of the CEO of the new School Food Trust, the fact that the position will be based in Sheffield and not London has raised many eyebrows. In political lobbying it’s a general rule of thumb that influence decreases in direct proportion to the distance from SW1.
This does not bode well for the FST, nor does the fact that the first round of serious dieting seems to have been in the form off a slimmed-down budget. No word yet from Ofsted about whether there will be any need for changes to the new regime of light-touch inspections that will now have to include school meals. We suspect that it will inevitably lead to variations (upwards) in the contracts awarded last May to Nord Anglia, Prospectus Education, the Centre for British Teaching, Cambridge Education and Tribal Education.