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The Croydon e-Pay Cashless Schools Project scooped the top award at the
E Gov National Awards held at London’s Guild Hall.
The judges praised the ground-breaking project for using forward thinking methods to make immense improvements to the school meals’ service – and for having a huge positive effect on the health and welfare of Croydon’s children.
The project had already been declared a clear winner locally, as it provided a successful solution to creating cashless primary schools (and some secondary schools) since its launch in 2006.
Executive Director of Resources & Customer Services, Nathan Elvery, said: “Croydon’s borough-wide project set ambitious targets; including removing all dinner money from our schools, and it has achieved many goals, from healthier diets to greater safety.”
When parents send the money directly to the schools it means the children must eat at school, improving their dietary health, and allowing parents to monitor what their child has eaten.
Removing the need for children to carry money enables them to walk the streets more safely; it’s also helped curb bullying.
Parents that don’t wish to use a debit or credit card, or have limited access to the Internet, can pay using PayPoint at any retailer displaying the PayPoint sign – there are 20,000 in the UK.
Mr Elvery, added: “Providing meal data online gives every parent a good reason to use online technology – to view their children’s meal choices and nutritional information.
“The project has also helped reduce CO2 emissions, by taking cash collection vehicles off the roads.”
E Gov National Awards held at London’s Guild Hall.
The judges praised the ground-breaking project for using forward thinking methods to make immense improvements to the school meals’ service – and for having a huge positive effect on the health and welfare of Croydon’s children.
The project had already been declared a clear winner locally, as it provided a successful solution to creating cashless primary schools (and some secondary schools) since its launch in 2006.
Executive Director of Resources & Customer Services, Nathan Elvery, said: “Croydon’s borough-wide project set ambitious targets; including removing all dinner money from our schools, and it has achieved many goals, from healthier diets to greater safety.”
When parents send the money directly to the schools it means the children must eat at school, improving their dietary health, and allowing parents to monitor what their child has eaten.
Removing the need for children to carry money enables them to walk the streets more safely; it’s also helped curb bullying.
Parents that don’t wish to use a debit or credit card, or have limited access to the Internet, can pay using PayPoint at any retailer displaying the PayPoint sign – there are 20,000 in the UK.
Mr Elvery, added: “Providing meal data online gives every parent a good reason to use online technology – to view their children’s meal choices and nutritional information.
“The project has also helped reduce CO2 emissions, by taking cash collection vehicles off the roads.”
“We are delighted to be recognised with this award. The project has improved the sustainability of the school meals service which contributes to the health of children by supplying high quality healthy meals in Croydon schools.”
Allyson Lloyd, Corporate Catering Manager , Croydon Council
Allyson Lloyd, Corporate Catering Manager , Croydon Council
E-Government
National Awards
This was a winner in the e-Government National Awards 2008.
Awards category 8) Local e-Government excellence: Take-up & usage growth Sponsored by Jadu
(Ensuring high & growing take-up of an e-enabled service through effective
service delivery & marketing).
www.epay.croydon.lgfl.net
Croydon Council has delivered a groundbreaking, socially inclusive solution creating a totally cashless payment solution for school meals in ALL primary schools and soon all secondary schools. Cash and cheque's have been completely eliminated. Nationally, and internationally, no other project has aimed and achieved such astonishing results within the schools sector.
The leadership and tenacity of the Croydon School Catering Management team has made dramatic impacts on the lives of children, parents and school managers in the Borough. Children walk safer through the streets, school administrators have more time for key educational tasks and the borough has an effective and streamlined school meals’ service.
Launched in October 2006, the Croydon school meals project aimed to revolutionise administration within the school meals service. NRS Trust-e.
Challenging targets included:
• to remove cash and cheque's from all Croydon schools
• to minimize/remove time spent on school meals administration
• to remove vehicles that collect dinner money from the streets of Croydon; thus seeing a real CO 2 reduction
• to create a system with live school meal data to local authority catering management, 24/7 across all schools
• to introduce a payment and meals taken system with accurate auditing functions with genuine accountability
• to increase uptake percentage of children entitled to free school meals taking those meals
• to increase overall uptake of school meals
• to offer parents inclusive payment methods out of school hours, online and in convenience stores
• to eliminate fraud and bad debt
• to reduce the risks to children of carrying money
• to ensure pupils remain in school at lunch time to take a healthy meal
Without exception, all targets have been achieved in at least 80% of all primary schools.
The figures speak for themselves: Academic year 2005/6 dinner money collected £5,858.40 in 354 transactions Academic year 2006/7 dinner money collected £475,222.31 in 28,971 transactions Academic year 2007/8 dinner money collected £1,667,179.29 in 95,230 transactions.
National Awards
This was a winner in the e-Government National Awards 2008.
Awards category 8) Local e-Government excellence: Take-up & usage growth Sponsored by Jadu
(Ensuring high & growing take-up of an e-enabled service through effective
service delivery & marketing).
www.epay.croydon.lgfl.net
Croydon Council has delivered a groundbreaking, socially inclusive solution creating a totally cashless payment solution for school meals in ALL primary schools and soon all secondary schools. Cash and cheque's have been completely eliminated. Nationally, and internationally, no other project has aimed and achieved such astonishing results within the schools sector.
The leadership and tenacity of the Croydon School Catering Management team has made dramatic impacts on the lives of children, parents and school managers in the Borough. Children walk safer through the streets, school administrators have more time for key educational tasks and the borough has an effective and streamlined school meals’ service.
Launched in October 2006, the Croydon school meals project aimed to revolutionise administration within the school meals service. NRS Trust-e.
Challenging targets included:
• to remove cash and cheque's from all Croydon schools
• to minimize/remove time spent on school meals administration
• to remove vehicles that collect dinner money from the streets of Croydon; thus seeing a real CO 2 reduction
• to create a system with live school meal data to local authority catering management, 24/7 across all schools
• to introduce a payment and meals taken system with accurate auditing functions with genuine accountability
• to increase uptake percentage of children entitled to free school meals taking those meals
• to increase overall uptake of school meals
• to offer parents inclusive payment methods out of school hours, online and in convenience stores
• to eliminate fraud and bad debt
• to reduce the risks to children of carrying money
• to ensure pupils remain in school at lunch time to take a healthy meal
Without exception, all targets have been achieved in at least 80% of all primary schools.
The figures speak for themselves: Academic year 2005/6 dinner money collected £5,858.40 in 354 transactions Academic year 2006/7 dinner money collected £475,222.31 in 28,971 transactions Academic year 2007/8 dinner money collected £1,667,179.29 in 95,230 transactions.