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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
Six short modules covering hygiene, temperature and allergens in a school catering setting.
Food safety hazards
Microbiological, chemical, physical and allergenic hazards in a school kitchen.
Personal hygiene
Handwashing, illness reporting and exclusion, and why it matters more with children.
Cleaning and cross-contamination
Cleaning schedules, separation, colour coding and equipment control.
Temperature control
Delivery, storage, cooking, hot holding and service at volume.
Allergens in schools
Known pupil allergies, cross-contact, and communication with staff and parents.
Records and inspection
Food safety management records, and what an inspection looks at
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Identify food safety hazards in a school kitchen
- Apply personal hygiene and illness reporting rules
- Prevent cross-contamination through service
- Control temperature from delivery through to hot holding
- Handle known pupil allergies and prevent cross-contact
- Keep the food safety 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
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
Allergen management deserves its own dedicated course in a school setting. See the Food Allergens course →
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 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
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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