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As the noble Baroness said, it is also important that we ensure compliance with current and future standards. School governors and trustees have a statutory duty to ensure compliance by holding school leaders to account for meeting the school food standards. Through our review, we will engage with the sector on a range of matters, including compliance. We want to support governors to work confidently with school leaders to ensure the standards are met. In November 2024, along with the National Governance Association, we published an online training programme for governors on school food. Through this training, as it is rolled out, we want to improve understanding of the standards and give governing boards confidence to hold their school leaders to account on their whole-school approach to food. If we need to go further on the compliance regime to ensure that standards are met, we will engage with the sector on that as part of our review.