The Education Council of the Catalonian government drew up a
programme to improve the quality control of school canteens in
Catalonia. The objectives of this programme were to contribute to
developing healthier eating habits in school children through school
canteens and to improve school canteen services considering other
aspects such as service, operation, management, end-users, frontline
staff and supervisors of menu planning.
This paper deals with two programme components aiming at introducing
Nutrition in the school syllabus and school menu assessment. Various
departments, organisations and associations were involved in
programme development and implementation.
Initial analysis was based on information collected from formal
administrative reports completed by a survey on 100 primary schools.
From this preliminary analysis it was concluded that problem
identification needs to be completed by an understanding of
underlying reasons in order to design adequate solutions and
guarantee implementation.