Schools to reintroduce cookery classes

2 November, 2008

The Government has announced £150 million for secondary schools to help them to introduce compulsory cookery classes from 2011.

• The money, which councils will be invited to bid for, is ring-fenced to build food technology teaching areas in the 500 plus school that don’t currently any facilities at all.
• Another £750,000 is available to assist schools in recruiting the 800 new food technology teachers estimated to be required, and an additional £2.5m has already been promised to cover the cost of the ingredients.

Schools minister Ed Balls said: “Cooking is already taught in the vast majority of primary schools and we’re making it compulsory in secondary school from 2011″.

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