Many people's first encounter with food security involves healthy food policies in their children's schools.
If you (or the group you're working with) have experience with a school food policy, try to identify the tools that were used to implement the policy.For example the school might have used:
- Information - for parents, children and the community about why the policy is important
- Education - curriculum changes to include nutritional education for children
- Regulation - within the school and across the school board region to limit what can be sold in or by the school
- Guidelines - within the school and for parents to follow in providing snacks and lunches
Another approach is to make up a hypothetical school food policy and ask the group what tools they would use to implement it.Policy tools include:
- Information
- Education
- Legislation
- Regulation
- Guidelines
- Standards
- Procedures
- Programs
- Grants
- Subsidies
- Expenditures
- Taxes
- Public Ownership