Joe Parfitt

Education Consultancy Director, The Litmus Partnership Ltd

Joe is Education Consultancy Director at The Litmus Partnership Ltd, a leading provider of catering and facilities management consultancy to schools and universities across the UK. He joined Litmus in 2012 and has worked extensively across all education sectors as a consultant since 2008. Before that he managed student residences in London and worked for a global facilities company. Joe specialises in helping schools get best value from their catering and cleaning services through benchmarking, strategic reviews, tendering and performance management for many prestigious clients across the sector.

1 Workshop series one

The lesson in the middle of the day: Aligning the business of school catering with educational value

How do school trusts connect their catering and educational provision, and what's the business case and operating framework for making change? In this session we'll consider how school trusts can centralise the management of catering services whilst empowering local teams to perform. You'll hear the latest trends on catering insourcing and outsourcing from across the sector from The Litmus Partnership, and gain insight into Asset Education trust's decision to insource catering across its 15 primary schools to forge a deep connection between food, the curriculum and pupil well-being. A connection that gives chefs and heads agency with a central trust framework, which can save money whilst delivering a better service, and which aims to have a lasting impact on pupils for learning and for life.