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We manage the catering and cleaning while you manage the real business of teaching and learning.

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CATERING

Client Services monitor the provision of school meals across the County, ensuring that specified, statutory and legislative standards are met. We manage the school melas contracts, provide management support for special schools and a consultation service to many schools with delegated catering budgets. We manage the catering equipment budgets and also look after equipment maintenance and replacement programmes. All aspects of Health and Safey are closely monitored and records maintained. We work closely with schools and Property to provide professional advice on kitchen design and refurbishment. We offer training in all aspects of catering, food hygiene and health and safety and are the first point of contact for food safety matters. We also provide an advisory service for out of school catering, school milk, nutrition and menu planning.

We provide a full support service for all school catering including:

Management support and monitoring for the school meals contracts
Management support for special school catering
Provision of a consultancy service for schools with delegated catering budgets
Management of the catering equipment maintenance and replacement budgets
Monitoring of Health and Safety and maintaining audit systems
Monitoring of Free school meals and school milk
Menu planning and nutritional analysis
Training in Food Safety, Catering operations and Health and Safe

CLEANING

School Cleaning requirements are always subject to change. New contracts are now negotiated to allow for those variations and meet the needs of the school. New specifications have been written which enable heavier cleaning tasks to be undertaken during term time when it is needed, rather than wait until a holiday period.

We also manage the Refuse contracts across the County in over 500 schools. We have set up a recycling programme in the Skipaway contract for paper and card. Unfortunately there is a charge for this, however if you have 2 bins or less when we will provide bags free of charge. We are also negotiating with Cleanaway to start recycling in the Folkestone and Ashford contract. Unfortunately it is just as expensive to recycle as it is to dispose of general waste. We are working with our Environment and Waste unit to help schools reduce the amount of waste generated.

We work closely with Property to advise schools on the appropriate finishes for walls and floors to provide safe hard wearing easily cleanable surfaces. We offer training in all aspects of cleaning and the use of chemicals and equipment to ensure all caretaking staff are working safely.

We provide a support service in respect of site management and cleaning

Caretaker and cleaner interview and selection
Induction and follow up training for caretaking and cleaning staff
In depth training in cleaning equipment and chemicals
Assessment and advice on caretaker and cleaning workloads
In conjunction with Property measure new buildings for contract cleaning purposes
Monitor cleaning standards and provide management support for contract cleaned schools.

| Published: 23-11-06 | TOP