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Food Hygiene in Education eLearning
Online food hygiene training for school catering: the four Cs, temperature control and allergen care in a kitchen serving hundreds of children in forty minutes.
Who it is for
Who this food hygiene in education course is for
School catering has volume, a fixed service window and a customer group where an allergen mistake is most likely to be serious. The hygiene principles are standard. The pressure is not.
- School kitchen and catering staff
- Catering managers and supervisors
- Breakfast and after-school club staff
- Nursery and early years catering
- Staff handling food for events and lettings
- Anyone serving food to pupils
Course content
What the food hygiene in education course covers
Five short lessons covering food safety hazards and hygiene, cleaning and cross-contamination, temperature control, allergens in schools, and records and inspection, then a 12-question assessment.
Food safety hazards and personal hygiene
The four food safety hazards in a school kitchen, handwashing, protective clothing, and reporting illness.
Cleaning and cross-contamination
Keeping raw and ready-to-eat food apart, colour-coded equipment, and two-stage cleaning in a school kitchen.
Temperature control
Keeping food safe from delivery to service: chilled storage, cooking, cooling, and hot holding during a busy lunch.
Allergens in schools
The 14 regulated allergens, pupils' healthcare plans, preventing cross-contact, and responding to a reaction.
Records and inspection
Food safety management in a school kitchen, the records inspectors check, and acting on a problem.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Identify the food safety hazards in a school kitchen and apply personal hygiene rules
- Prevent cross-contamination through preparation and service
- Control temperature from delivery to hot holding during service
- Handle known pupil allergies and prevent cross-contact
- Keep the records an inspection will check
Your legal duty
The law behind food hygiene in education training
School food businesses operate under the same food law as any other. In England that means the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013, with equivalent regulations elsewhere in the UK, and food handlers must be supervised and instructed or trained in food hygiene matters appropriate to their work.
Allergen requirements apply in full, and school catering has the additional complication that pupils' known allergies are recorded elsewhere in the school. Getting that information to the kitchen and to servers is a school system as much as a catering one.
- Food Safety Act 1990
- Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 - equivalents apply elsewhere in the UK
- Allergen information requirements apply in full
- Training must be appropriate to the work
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Allergen management deserves its own dedicated course in a school setting.
For employers
Food Hygiene in Education training for a team
School catering teams turn over and take on temporary staff at short notice. Licences allocated as people join keep everyone certificated.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Food Hygiene in Education eLearning: common questions
It is awareness-level food hygiene training with a certificate. Where you need the level 2 course specifically, that is available separately.
Yes, with a module written for schools: known pupil allergies, cross-contact and getting the information from the school system to the kitchen.
Yes. Anyone handling food for pupils needs training appropriate to their work, including club and holiday provision staff.
That is a school policy question rather than a food law one for most events, though allergen risk is the same. The course covers the principles.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them. Completion reporting is included.
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