We understand every Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) strives to maximise student wellbeing and provide nutritious school meals. But higher food costs, inadequate funding a rapidly evolving and legislative landscape, make this a challenge.
Civica Catering Management helps you to serve healthy, personalised meals, while providing an efficient and compliant service in a safe environment. Our extensive work with leading education catering providers guides the development of Civica Catering Management, part of our suite of smart software solutions designed specifically for MATs.
- Centralises paperless kitchen management and menu administration for improved efficiency with easy repeatable processes that are quick for people to learn
- Gives more control over costs through improved supply chain management and centralised sales and FSM data
- Provides sustainability insights you need to hit Net Zero targets through tracking food waste and CO2 impacts and making it easier to buy local.
- Protects student wellbeing and reassure parents, with nutritional data against menus, allergen management and reporting for schools/parents
- Provides ability to sell your services to neighbouring schools and MATs.
80% reduction in paper usage in the kitchen
70% reduction in purchasing and invoicing costs
Save 1 hour a day for every kitchen manager
Why choose Civica as your catering software partner?
Improve efficiency to deliver faster and more reliable services with easy repeatable processes and centralisation
Drive down costs by improving procurement control and visibility of data so you can track and share this information easily with stakeholders
Support safe and sustainable choices, that protect their wellbeing while reducing the social impacts of food waste and CO2

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Nigel Craine,
Head of Schools Catering,
Lancashire County Council
The Civica system gives us our menu analysis tools to be able to design multiple menus using the same core base of ingredients. It controls everything in terms of outputs for all our menus and ensures we have complete oversight of all the food that we purchase. It’s the heart of what we do.
Civica enhances catering control for 30 primary schools in North Lincolnshire
Discover how North Lincolnshire Council is using Civica Catering Management software to meet some of its most pressing challenges head-on and safeguard students.
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Financial resilience
We help to reduce the cost of operations and empower financial resilience across your ecosystem through efficient, integrated and centralised management of your Trust’s financial posture.

Effective teams
Maximise staff effectiveness and drive staff growth and retention for better continuity of teams with a centralised and intuitive source of the truth.

Safe environment
From statutory compliance, safer estate management and supporting pupil’s nutritional needs, we help you focus on what matters by reducing the burden of reporting and improving efficiencies.