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About the programme#
Healthy School Lunches is one of the biggest food programmes in New Zealand. Around a million nutritious lunches are provided each week to approximately 240,000 students in over 1,000 schools and kura across the country.
The primary objective is to mitigate the impact of food insecurity in schools.
Meal providers for the Healthy School lunches programme work within the following delivery models:
- external model where meals are delivered to schools and kura by an agreed supplier
- internal model where meals are prepared onsite in school kitchens
- iwi and hapū model where local meal providers deliver meals to nearby kura.
To learn more about the delivery models and the overall programme, visit the website.
Healthy School Lunches: about the programme
You can read more about the funding for the programme here:
Mōhiohio anō
More information
For support, contact your healthy school lunches key relationship holder at the Ministry or email us.
Email: [email protected]
You can access the nutrition standards here:
Nutrition standards for the Healthy School Lunches programme
