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Keep up to date with the latest news and views in the YPO Blog

We'll be blogging every few days about various topics, so come back soon to see more!

Smart software in catering management

19 September 2025 By The YPO Team

Resilient caterers are cutting waste with smarter inventory tools, using automated menu planning to manage costs, streamlining admin through automation, and tracking compliance with real-time dashboards.
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St Helen's delivers quality public sector catering

31 July 2025 By The YPO Team

St. Helen's council have worked with YPO to procure their food, drink and catering services. Amidst growing economic pressures and rising costs, St Helen's strives to deliver high-quality catering services while maintaining government standards.
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Supplying healthy balanced school meals

30 July 2025 By The YPO Team

The vital thing is feeding children a healthy, nutritious, and balanced meal in our primary and secondary schools. These meals fuel students to focus on their studies and are crucial for children who experience food insufficiency.
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Winter maintenance with comprehensive solutions

16 July 2025 By The YPO Team

Winter brings a unique set of challenges and opportunities, and we're here to help you navigate them all with ease. From winter gritting and snow clearance to adding a festive touch to your celebrations, our winter solutions cover everything you need.
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Electronic meal ordering and catering in the NHS

03 December 2024 By Katie Beaumont - Category Buyer for ICT at YPO

Many public sector organisations are on a digital transformation journey and are being pushed into using a ‘Cloud First’ approach. With this and the recommendations to the NHS from the food review in mind, YPO have developed a Framework with a Lot specific to the NHS for electronic patient meal ordering catering management.
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Tips for cutting food costs

15 November 2023 By The YPO Food and Catering Team

Despite news articles reporting that inflation overall is reducing and the government is confident about achieving targets to halve inflation by the end of 2023 from its high of 10.7%, food costs still appear to be as high as ever, with very few opportunities to take advantage of falling prices.
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Get involved this National School Meals Week

09 October 2023 By The YPO Food and Catering Team

National School Meals Week is a week that celebrates everything great about the school meals industry. LACA, the school food people, have been running the event since 1993 and has grown year on year. Find out more about the week and how to get involved in our latest blog.
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Food waste management: An interview with LARAC

27 September 2023 By Dr Wendy Fail - Senior Waste Management Officer at Northumberland County Council

As local authorities wait to hear from the UK government when food waste recycling will begin and what funding they shall have, we've spoken with waste management expert Dr Wendy Fail, who is the Senior Waste Management Officer for Northumberland County Council, winner of the LARAC 2021 “Outstanding Contribution to Recycling Award and now part LARAC executive board.
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Our guide to food waste disposal bags

24 July 2023 By Katie Hart - Account Manager at Cromwell

The UK government is set to implement regular and separate collections of food waste from every home and business. This will boost recycling levels across the whole country.
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Food waste legislation – are you ready?

29 June 2023 By The YPO Food Frameworks Team

Local Authorities in England are only required to ensure food waste is collected and disposed of with no stipulation that it must be separate from general waste or recycled. This is set to change with the possible implementation of stricter legislation in 2023 which will introduce mandatory separate food waste collections, with a targeted 75% recycling rate by 2030.
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