To help meet targets on childhood obesity, Bromley Primary Care Trust was awarded a grant to design and deliver training on food and nutrition in nurseries and pre-schools. Bromley is the largest London borough, with 18,000 children under five - at least half of whom are in full-time or part-time childcare. There are 43 registered nurseries, including 29 which take babies under 12 months, and 132 registered pre-schools in Bromley.
I am a registered dietician with 15 years experience in nutrition and education, and I was recruited to carry out this project. After researching relevant literature, standards and existing training packs on food and nutrition, I came up with a set of standards, recommendations and guidelines used to audit practice in four nurseries across the borough, at the start and end of the project.
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