Re-running school canteens to provide meals for students within the framework of health measures
School principals reported that they had received instructions from the Emirates Foundation for School Education to restart school canteens, to provide meals for students in government schools across the country.
The school principals, who preferred not to be named, added that the reactivation of the school feeding service will be in cooperation with the food supply companies approved by the Foundation, within the framework of the health procedures included in the Guide to the Safe Return of Governmental Schools.
The "Safe Return to Governmental Schools" guide, in its amended version, stressed the necessity of the school administration's commitment to implement seven measures to ensure "food safety", including ensuring that food suppliers and their workers adhere to all procedures and general controls for school service providers, and applying precautionary measures in cases of shared food and buffets. Concerning food and beverages in private and common dining halls.
Food safety measures include the necessity of providing sterile meals for students in the classrooms in the kindergarten and first cycle and people of determination to avoid crowding, and allowing students of the second and third cycles to go to food outlets in school canteens, taking into account the application of safe physical distance.
Food safety measures also include the necessity of increasing the number of sales outlets (if possible), distributing students into groups to facilitate the buying process and avoiding crowding or gatherings, giving students the opportunity to bring healthy food from home with the need to warn them not to share it with others, and obligating students to wash hands with water. And soap for at least 20 seconds before you start eating and after you finish eating.
On the other hand, the guide clarified that the scope of its application is to all government schools affiliated with the Emirates School Education Foundation in the country, and special education support centers and inclusive education services centers are committed to the procedures and controls referred to in this guide, and what applies to schools are applied to them, and are subject to the requirements of The procedures and controls of the guide to change according to the requirements of the competent authorities and the concerned health authorities in light of any changes or developments related to the public education sector and school operations.
The guide indicated the responsibility of the school administration in implementing the Safe Return to School Guide, as it works to form a continuity of education team, and activate its role, to follow up on the application of all requirements, procedures, measures, precautionary and preventive controls, and awareness and training programs recommended by the institution, the concerned health authorities and any other competent authorities.
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