FOI 26-2876 – Documents related to Maggie Beer Foundation Grant

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This FOI release concerns the Maggie Beer Foundation grant, P8344, titled "Aged Care Quality: Improving Food in Aged Care through Education and Training". The documents are internal email chains between grants and aged care staff from 2024 to 2025, a grant commitment approval minute, a variation documentation thread, fortnightly meeting notes from October 2025 covering the Year 2 evaluation by HealthConsult, and a December 2025 email about the Home Enhanced Living Framework (HELF) and Dementia Australia. The commitment approval recommends a variation adding CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) activities, increasing the grant by up to $305,000 (GST exclusive) from $6.7 million to $7.05 million over 2025-26 and 2026-27. Training content covers menu development, texture-modified food and the Aged Care Quality Standard 6 Food Standard. Much of the text is redacted, and no clinical efficacy or cost-effectiveness data is shown.