A school meals provider operating across South Lincolnshire has been ordered to cease trading by North Kesteven District Council with immediate effect. On Monday November 17 NKDC served a Remedial Action Notice on the company Food 4 Thought GB Ltd. This requires them to stop trading out of their premises at the Reedspire Industrial Units in Sleaford, from where they send out around 700 school meals daily, to the Sleaford and Lincoln areas. After going into liquidation on November 4th 2014, Food 4 Thought has continued to supply meals to schools - but without the necessary approvals and licences being updated and in place, the Food Standards Agency has advised the council that the company cannot continue to operate. Cllr Richard Wight, NKDC’s Executive Board Member with responsibility for Environmental Services, said: We are not saying that the meals themselves are unfit, but because the company is operating without the necessary approvals, it is breaking the law by supplying them. They are trading illegally and supplying meals to some of the most vulnerable people in society. In these circumstances the Food Standards Agency’s guidance is clear that we have to take action to stop them and indeed they have today advised us to do this as a matter of urgency. The schools being supplied from the Sleaford offices currently known to be affected are: > St Botolph’s Primary School, Quarrington > St Andrew’s Primary School, Leasingham > Cranwell Primary School, Cranwell > Woodside Children’s Nursery, Sleaford > Redwood Primary School, Waddington > Leslie Manser School, Lincoln The schools have been notified of this action and parents of children who receive their meals there are advised to make alternative arrangements for the timebeing and wait to be advised by the school.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:31:17 +0000
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