Nursery World - Editor’s view

Healthy eating is a theme that runs through this issue of Nursery World, and this will continue to be of prime importance whatever the colour and shape of the Government that will be in place by the time you read this.

Mary Llewellin of Snapdragons Nursery makes a heartfelt plea in ‘Get real!’ on pages 14-15 for policy-makers to support the early years sector in improving children’s nutrition and health outcomes. Moves such as ditching free infant school lunches and underfunding the free entitlement with the likely consequence of a surge in packed lunches should cause outrage, she argues.

Her point that we need to stop the disconnect between producing food and eating it by teaching young children to cook real food from scratch is well made – and how shocking that children have turned up to her nurseries not recognising an apple unless it has been sliced up for snacktime.

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