Lead: Glasgow Centre for Population Health

Members: Glasgow Centre for Population Health; Glasgow City Council (Catering); Glasgow City Council (DRS); Glasgow City Council (Education); Glasgow City Council (NRS); Glasgow Life; NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; Our Lady of the Rosary Primary; St Paul’s Youth Forum; University of Glasgow (Human Nutrition).

Priorities

  • Promote and improve uptake of school meals in schools across Glasgow. 
  • Establish and support more good food groups in schools across Glasgow and improve opportunities for them to support learning about the food system. 
  • Promote and encourage use of Your Body Matters in schools across Glasgow and undertake and incorporate learning from evaluation of the resource. 
  • Increase engagement by families in programmes to improve nutritional health – Thrive Under 5, Weigh to Go, etc.  Review and evaluate the approaches.  
  • Support breastfeeding through increased rollout of the Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland (BFS) scheme to businesses and BFS Early Learning scheme to Early Years providers.