Food in Prisons – Sharing Best Practice – 14th November 10:30-12:00
Our first speaker was David Hill, the catering manager from HMP Buckley Hall. He spoke about the pace at which transformation happens within UK prisons (slowly!), the barriers you’re up against as a catering manager, and how to get people within the prison estate excited about healthy food (spoiler — don’t call it healthy food). He also shared exciting updates, such as plans to standardise menus across the prison estate along nutritional criteria, meaning that nutrition and wellbeing is one of the focal points of consideration, not just cost management and efficiency. He considers how prisons should and can be part of the movement for global responsibility and sustainable consumption, and explains his ten principles for creating more nutritious prison menus.
Secondly came Wendy Handley and Pamela Murray from Forth Valley in Scotland, sharing their ‘Whole Prisons’ approach to food in prisons. They share insights from their prison education programme, highlighting the success of measures such as quizzes and focus groups within prisons. They are currently the only workers across Scottish prisons assigned specifically to improve health and wellbeing using food, and they share the tangible positive impacts of their work.
Our third speakers was Tori van Rooyen, from The Right Choice, a charity creating professional-standard hospitality environments across four prisons in the UK. She speaks about how these environments incorporate industry-led training and opportunities in terms of food, yet also provide experiences and positive interactions that in term have significant positive impacts on inmates in prisons and upon release. It isn’t just the food cooked, but also the behaviours around the food, including preparing, sharing, and eating the food – that have a tremendous positive impact, which Tori explores in her presentation.
Finally, we end with questions from the audience, ranging from questions about funding models to strategies for influencing prison governors. Watch the full webinar below:
Food in Prisons – Sharing Best Practice – 14th November 10:30-12:00
Our first speaker was David Hill, the catering manager from HMP Buckley Hall. He spoke about the pace at which transformation happens within UK prisons (slowly!), the barriers you’re up against as a catering manager, and how to get people within the prison estate excited about healthy food (spoiler — don’t call it healthy food). He also shared exciting updates, such as plans to standardise menus across the prison estate along nutritional criteria, meaning that nutrition and wellbeing is one of the focal points of consideration, not just cost management and efficiency. He considers how prisons should and can be part of the movement for global responsibility and sustainable consumption, and explains his ten principles for creating more nutritious prison menus.
Secondly came Wendy Handley and Pamela Murray from Forth Valley in Scotland, sharing their ‘Whole Prisons’ approach to food in prisons. They share insights from their prison education programme, highlighting the success of measures such as quizzes and focus groups within prisons. They are currently the only workers across Scottish prisons assigned specifically to improve health and wellbeing using food, and they share the tangible positive impacts of their work.
Our third speakers was Tori van Rooyen, from The Right Choice, a charity creating professional-standard hospitality environments across four prisons in the UK. She speaks about how these environments incorporate industry-led training and opportunities in terms of food, yet also provide experiences and positive interactions that in term have significant positive impacts on inmates in prisons and upon release. It isn’t just the food cooked, but also the behaviours around the food, including preparing, sharing, and eating the food – that have a tremendous positive impact, which Tori explores in her presentation.
Finally, we end with questions from the audience, ranging from questions about funding models to strategies for influencing prison governors. Watch the full webinar below:
