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| Company objective & values |
| To
work pro-actively with Cheshire County Council, Social
Services, and qualifying groups to provide a main hot
meal daily for those persons needing it |
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| Company role |
| The
service and delivery of hot meals to qualified persons
in Cheshire. 25 vehicles supply over 800 meals per day. |
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| Key skills & competences |
- Organising drivers and delivery staff with back
up personnel in place in the event of breakdown,
illness or accident.
- Maintain 25 vans for daily use
- Maintain, service and supply gas and equipment
for the food heating ovens of the vans
- To order, store and distribute the meals required
on a daily basis
- Maintain cold storage for emergency needs as daily/weekly
needs
- Staff training on vehicles, ovens, routes etc
- Liaising with C.C.C. and Social Services on the
customer needs
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| Links with national curriculum |
| Strong |
Science |
Mechanical
engineering is a key area of this operation |
| Useful |
Geography |
Knowledge of local areas
and delivery routes is of key importance |
| Useful |
ICT |
The use of computers to
organise the deliveries on a daily basis |
| Useful |
PSHE |
Teamworking, Social Responsibilities
and Communication are key factors |
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| Areas that could be used in lessons |
- Office administration of telephone calls, requests
and entering onto the system
- Criteria for persons being given the facility
of meals on wheels
- Computeristaion of stock, deliveries and needs
of customers
- Special needs procedures
- Failures of deliveries and contingency planning
- Induction and training of new staff
- Map of Cheshire areas and locations
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| How could it be made interesting
and appropriate? |
- Children could be taken thru a request for the
service from C.C.C., Social Services, Doctor or
Family
- Project made to show the path of the enquiry will
take to deliveries being made, including how the
vehicle is prepared, loaded, heated and the meal
delivered.
- Site visit to see the vehicles, ovens in them
and cold storage.
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| Background information |
- Visits can be to the school or to the site.
- Ideally visits should be between 11am and 1pm
- There is a minor Health & Safety risk from
moving vehicles and hot gas powered ovens
- Ideally a visit to the site should be no more
than 10 children.
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