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Swipe card success sees rise in free school meals

"“Our whole dining experience has improved - students spend less time queuing and spend more time eating together." - David Dickson, headteacher, Eastbury Comprehensive School

THE number of pupils having free school meals has risen at one Barking school following the launch of a new scheme. Eastbury School, in Hulse Avenue, Barking, is the first in the borough to trial the new Street Base Connect Card.
Since its launch in March, there has been an 11 per cent rise in the number of pupils accessing free school meals at the school. Street Base Connect gives young people Oyster-style swipe card access to youth, health, leisure and library services along with cashless catering.

The council said it believes the increase is down to the fact that the card removes the stigma of free school meals as every pupil has the card. David Dickson, headteacher at Eastbury Comprehensive School, was delighted with the success of the card.
He said: “I would like to thank our students who have contributed to its smooth introduction, parents and all the staff at the school and borough who are ensuring success. “Our whole dining experience has improved - students spend less time queuing and spend more time eating together. “It has improved working conditions for catering staff and they now have more time to provide advice about healthy options to students.”

The card is currently being piloted at Eastbury School and will roll out to other schools later this year.
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Wrexham CBC Choose trust-e

"Nationwide Retail Systems came out as a clear winner." - Steve Jones, Senior Support Officer

WexhamCbC

Tender for this contract was advertised through the European Journal (OJEU) and a full procurement procedure was completed. We originally asked for expressions of interest from suppliers to which we had plenty of response and issued Pre Qualification Questionnaire's to each supplier.

We then received 14 completed PQQ's and evaluated these to produce a 'shortlist' of 5 suppliers to invite to tender.

The ITT's where distributed with a return date of 23rd December 2009. A full and detailed evaluation of these was then completed using a Quality / Price ratio of 70% / 30% for which Nationwide Retail Systems came out as a clear winner. It is my opinion that the area's which stood out in the NRS bid were the attention to detail, the importance placed on support and maintenance of the product and also the development of a Centralised system to enable Wrexham CBC to monitor the various sites operating this package from a central office. These facts along with the very competitive pricing, not only of the initial purchase costs but also of annual maintenance and support, ensured that NRS were awarded the Framework Agreement to supply WCBC schools catering section with Cashless dining solutions for the next 3 to 4 years.

Steve Jones, Senior Support Officer, Support Services Section, Learning and Achievement Dept., Wrexham C.B.C

The Croydon Model

CASHLESS CATERING SYSTEMS IN SCHOOLS CAN SAVE MONEY AND TIME, INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND EVEN HELP BOOST MEAL UPTAKE, ACCORDING TO ORGANISERS OF A PIONEERING SCHEME IN CROYDON.

Schools, local authorities, consultants and contract caterers gathered to hear details at the 'Cashless Schools Conference' yesterday hosted by Croydon Council's meals service Food in Schools.

Allyson Lloyd, corporate catering manager of Food in Schools, told delegates it had cost £500,000 to introduce the cashless system and under agreement with schools a £1 per pupil fee was levied each year to cover maintenance.

But against that she estimated the programme had achieved more than £750,000 in efficiency savings.

The Croydon scheme began with a pilot project in 2007, before starting to roll it out across 127 schools in 2008 at a rate of about four schools a week.

Food in Schools teamed up with ParentPay and Nationwide Retail Systems to design a system adapted to the needs of the council, schools and incumbent contract caterer Eden Foodservice.

First reward card for young people to launch in Barking and Dagenham

Barking and Dagenham Council and NHS Barking and Dagenham are to launch the UK's first integrated youth reward card designed specifically to encourage young people to lead healthier, more active lives.

The ground breaking integrated card will give young people Oyster-card-style swipe card access to youth, health, leisure and library services and for the first time ever, a cashless catering system ( trust-e from Nationwide Retail Systems ), will be introduced into schools across the borough.

The pioneering scheme will draw all services together on one card and will encourage young people to increase participation in positive activities within their communities and lead healthier lives through a rewards scheme.

By taking positive actions like choosing healthier meals in their school lunch, taking part in sporting activities or volunteering for charities, card holders will earn rewards points to redeem on a range of exciting activities aimed at young people.

Consultation is currently being carried out with young people to get their views on incentives. Rewards could include access to leisure facilities and classes, concert, cinema and theatre tickets, iTunes vouchers and residential adventure weekends along with other age related activities that young people will love.

Barking and Dagenham Council announces its partnership with Nationwide Retail Systems for Youth Access Project

Following a tender for an integrated cashless payment and meal management solution, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham awarded the contract to Nationwide Retail Systems (NRS). NRS will provide the Council with a central borough wide system for cashless catering as part of the Council’s Youth Access Project which is due to launch in January 2010.

Starting in 2008 the Barking and Dagenham Strategic Partnership began a three year programme of change for children to improve the life expectancy, and quality of life, of children and young people living in the borough.

As part of the programme, the borough’s Youth Access Card will integrate to create a new healthy life aspiration across schools catering, leisure and libraries, providing incentives to improve meal uptake and particularly healthy eating choices, and assist in improving pupil attendance and pupil behaviour. Primary and secondary schools across the London Borough will benefit from an NRS ePOS cashless catering solution, integrated with ParentPay Data Capture™, so parents can pay and view their children’s meal choices online.

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