Chris Waterman, chief executive of ConfEd, spoke out amid mounting concern that a number of schools are locked in to long-term contracts with private catering firms.
He said: "ConfEd wants to work with the Department for Education and Skills and the private providers to agree some principles on which the new contracts can be negotiated. This would help to minimise the bureaucracy and reduce costs."
Martin Ward, deputy general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, also expressed concern at some schools' predicament. "With a number of the early private finance initiative schemes especially, the contracts were not drawn up carefully enough so some schools have lost control over the way they work."
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