Nanyang Schools Empower Parents: New Initiatives for Cafeteria Involvement
On November 5, the Municipal Education Bureau issued the “Nanyang City Primary and Secondary School Parents’ Participation in the Supervision and Management of School Canteens (Trial)” to further strengthen school canteen management, ensure student food safety, and give full play to the role of parents in school food safety supervision.
Establish a parent open day in the school cafeteria. The school regularly invites willing parents to sign up for parent open days in the school cafeteria. During the open day, parents can visit the school cafeteria in depth and observe on-the-spot food storage, cooking, tableware cleaning and other aspects. After the visit, parents can dine with the students to experience the taste, temperature, portion, price, etc. of the food. Parent representatives will collect feedback and present their opinions to the school and canteen management staff in the communication session after the open day.
Implement the system of parents accompanying meals. The school invites family committee members to the school every month to accompany the meal. Parents can also make reservations through the “Wan Campus” applet on the campus catering sun platform. Parental meal companions cannot be repeated within a week, and meal companionship fees are paid according to regulations. The school holds a parent committee meeting once a month to evaluate the situation of the canteen (including the price of ingredients and the quality of meals, etc.), and listens carefully to parents’ opinions to improve the work. Establish and improve the Meal Management Committee, which is mainly composed of students, parents, and teacher representatives, with the participation of school leaders and specific managers, to participate in the daily supervision of school food safety and meal quality, and conduct meal satisfaction surveys.
Establish parent food safety monitors. Each school selects some parents with strong sense of responsibility and relevant knowledge or experience to serve as food safety supervisors. The school trains parent supervisors to make them understand various standards and norms of food safety. Supervisors have the right to inspect the canteen at any time, and can also conduct online inspections through the “Internet + Bright Kitchen and Bright Stove” system, regularly report inspection results to the school, and make timely rectification suggestions for discovered food safety hazards to ensure the safety of teachers and students. Eat safely.
Open channels for parental supervision. The school’s “Internet + Bright Kitchen and Bright Stove” system should cover key parts of the school cafeteria, remain online at all times, and accept parent supervision at any time. The school uploads weekly recipes and photos of each meal to the campus catering sun platform, and uses the face-scanning dining system to push students’ meal consumption data to parents through text messages, allowing parents to understand students’ meal consumption and meal quality. Counties, districts and schools promote the “Internet + Bright Kitchen and Bright Stove” and “Wan Campus” viewing methods to parents through official websites, text messages, DingTalk and other channels, and accept parental supervision at any time.