The School Meals Service: Past, Present - And Future?

学校供餐服务：过去、现在和未来？

• 批准号: ES/X000737/1
• 负责人: Gary McCulloch
• 金额: $ 103.05万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX000737%2F1
• 关键词: Meals; Service; Past; Present; Future

This project will explore the aims, achievements and limitations of the UK School Meals Service (SMS) from its inception in 1906. Through a combination of historical and ethnographic approaches, it seeks to discover the Service's impact on schools, communities and pupils and what lessons may be learned from the lived experiences of SMS recipients, teachers and catering staff, both now and in the past. While always a much-discussed area of social policy, school meals have achieved particular prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic. With a significant rise in the percentage of children eligible for free school meals since the start of the pandemic (20.8% or 1.74 million children up from 17.3% in January 2020) (DFE, 2021), accusations of poorly-planned policy decision making and ad hoc interventions have been levelled at the UK government response to feeding pupils throughout the crisis especially when schools were forced to move to mainly online provision (House of Commons 2020; Lobb 2021). Starting from the position that the SMS is a valuable and valued part of the UK welfare state, we ask whether these problems with the SMS are due to the Covid crisis or rather the result of longstanding issues which require system level changes to correct. Anecdotal evidence indicates that dissatisfaction with the SMS can be traced back many years. It is visible in the campaign led by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in the early 2000s against the use of cheap processed foods such as the now infamous 'turkey twizzlers' and in the enduring reputation of Margaret Thatcher as the 'milk snatcher' of the 1970s (Smith, 2010). We believe this question can only be addressed with a deep, critical analysis of the history of the SMS in the UK, in terms of both the intention and impact of policy choices and implementation. Drawing on the conceptual framework of a 'usable past' (Tyack and Cuban 1994), this project will conduct the first systematic policy and social history of the SMS from its beginnings in 1906 until the present day, combined with an ethnographic study of the experience of school feeding by children today across four partner schools in Bradford, London, Cardiff and Glasgow. This combination of historical and contemporary ethnographic research will enable a longitudinal assessment of the current challenges facing the SMS. Insights drawn from the research will allow the project team to offer critical, historically-informed recommendations to both policy makers and practitioners designed to secure the future of the SMS in the UK.

本项目将探讨英国学校膳食服务（SMS）自1906年成立以来的目标、成就和局限性。通过历史和民族志方法的结合，它试图发现该服务对学校、社区和学生的影响，以及可以从现在和过去的短信接收者、教师和餐饮人员的生活经历中学到什么教训。虽然学校供餐一直是一个备受讨论的社会政策领域，但在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，学校供餐尤为突出。自疫情开始以来，有资格获得免费校餐的儿童比例大幅上升（从2020年1月的17.3%上升至20.8%或174万儿童）（DFE， 2021年），人们指责英国政府在整个危机期间对学生膳食的反应，特别是在学校被迫主要转向在线提供的情况下（House of Commons 2020; Lobb 2021）。从SMS是英国福利国家有价值和有价值的一部分的立场出发，我们询问SMS的这些问题是由于Covid危机还是需要系统级别更改才能纠正的长期问题的结果。轶事证据表明，对短信的不满可以追溯到许多年前。在21世纪初，由名厨杰米·奥利弗（Jamie Oliver）领导的反对使用廉价加工食品（如现在臭名昭著的“火鸡糖”）的运动中，以及玛格丽特·撒切尔（Margaret Thatcher）作为20世纪70年代“牛奶掠夺者”的持久声誉中，都可以看到这一点（Smith, 2010）。我们认为，这个问题只能通过对英国SMS的历史进行深入、批判性的分析来解决，包括政策选择和实施的意图和影响。利用“可用的过去”的概念框架（Tyack和Cuban 1994），该项目将对SMS从1906年开始到现在的第一个系统政策和社会历史进行研究，并结合对布拉德福德、伦敦、卡迪夫和格拉斯哥四所合作学校的儿童学校供餐经验的民族志研究。这种历史和当代民族志研究的结合将使SMS面临的当前挑战的纵向评估成为可能。从研究中得出的见解将允许项目团队为政策制定者和从业者提供关键的，历史知情的建议，旨在确保英国SMS的未来。