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Review to look at impact of children missing out on breakfast

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) and Magic Breakfast are joining forces to explore the link between the importance of breakfast for children and their health and wellbeing

New scheme to help children learn about the benefits of milk

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The Children’s Food Trust (CFT) and school milk supplier Cool Milk have teamed up to launch a national health initiative promoting the benefits of milk consumption.

Ofsted should inspect nursery food, says All Party group

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted should regularly inspect food and nutrition in early years settings, a parliamentary group has said.

Good heart health begins in infancy

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Rapid weight gain in a child’s early years could increase their heart attack and stroke risk as adults, a study has found.

Nursery World Awards 2013 - the shortlists revealed

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The waiting is over - it's time to unveil the shortlists for each category in the Nursery World Awards 2013

Labour to restrict fat, sugar and salt in foods marketed at children

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

| Nursery World

Maximum limits would be imposed on the levels of fat, salt and sugar in food marketed to children, if Labour wins the election, as part of a new approach to public health.

Charity calls for ban on junk food ads before 9pm

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Monday, January 26, 2015

| Nursery World

The British Heart Foundation is calling for the Government to bring in a ban on advertising unhealthy food during family shows on television.

Dairies call on Government to cap nursery milk claims

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| Nursery World

Nearly 100 milk suppliers have written an open letter to health and agriculture ministers urging them to choose the most 'sensible' option outlined in the nursery milk review - to cap the price that can be claimed for milk.

Charity to work with deprived areas to improve children's health

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

| Nursery World

The British Heart Foundation has committed 1.2m to help deprived areas in the UK cut children's risk of heart disease.

Keeping toddlers happy and healthy at Christmas

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Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The Infant and Toddler Forum has launched new resources for parents with practical advice on what to feed their children and how to keep them active over the Christmas period.

Children missing out on free nursery and school milk

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Children are missing out on free milk as many early years settings and schools stopped claiming for the subsidy during the Covid pandemic, reveals new research.

Millions of families cutting back on healthy food that is twice as expensive as unhealthy options

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

A ‘worrying’ proportion of ‘food insecure’ families are cutting back on healthy food, sparking concerns of widening health inequalities.

LEYF opens up its chef training academy to all nurseries

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

| Nursery World

The London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) has opened up its professional chef academy to external candidates in a bid to tackle the ‘alarming’ rise in childhood obesity.

Action plan sets out ways to tackle low take-up of school meals

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Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

A plan of action commissioned by the Government last year to improve the quality and take-up of school meals has been published today.

The big picture: Healthy habits

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Monday, August 24, 2015

| Nursery World

Stationhouse Nursery in Portishead and its sister nursery Lakehouse are among some of the first nurseries in the South West to receive a Children's Food Trust Award.

Universal free school meals for Primary 1 to 3 pupils in Scotland

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Monday, January 5, 2015

| Nursery World

As of today, every P1 to P3 pupil (aged four to eight) will receive a free school dinner under the Scottish Government’s expanded free school meals policy.

Government maps out changes to Nursery Milk scheme

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

| Nursery World

From next year, all early years settings will receive free nursery milk through a direct supplier, under changes to the way the scheme is run.

DfE to fund breakfast club provision in thousands of schools

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Monday, March 19, 2018

| Nursery World

More than 1,770 schools in areas of deprivation are to benefit from an investment of £26 million by the DfE to provide children with a healthy and nutritious breakfast.

Health experts call on political parties to address diet-related disease in children

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report calls for a food manifesto for the under-fives to address the challenge of childhood obesity and malnutrition.

Concerns raised by professionals over children's nutrition

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Monday, February 25, 2013

| Nursery World

More than four out of ten professionals who work with children have given food to a child in the last two years because they were worried they were not getting enough to eat, finds a new survey.

London Assembly calls for expansion of free school meals

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

| Nursery World

More funding is required for free school meals and breakfast clubs to help tackle high levels of child food poverty, recommends a report by the London Assembly.

Boost school nursing to tackle childhood obesity, says Unite

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

| Nursery World

Unite the union is calling for money to be redirected from the National Child Measurement Programme into creating school nursing posts to combat childhood obesity, as the latest figures show a rise in the number of school children overweight or obese.

Concerns raised over school meals as Children's Food Trust loses funding

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

| Nursery World

Fears have been raised that school food standards will slide as the Children's Food Trust, which monitors the quality of meals in schools, sees its Government funding come to an end next month.

'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

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Thursday, March 5, 2020

| Nursery World

According to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s (RCPCH) State of Child Health 2020 report, progress on children’s health outcomes across this country has mostly stalled or reversed – something rarely seen in high-income countries.

Government launches new obesity strategy

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Monday, July 27, 2020

| Nursery World

A ban on junk food ads before the 9pm watershed is one of the measures being brought in by the Government to tackle ‘the ticking time bomb’ of obesity.

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Review to look at impact of children missing out on breakfast

New scheme to help children learn about the benefits of milk

Ofsted should inspect nursery food, says All Party group

Good heart health begins in infancy

Nursery World Awards 2013 - the shortlists revealed

Labour to restrict fat, sugar and salt in foods marketed at children

Charity calls for ban on junk food ads before 9pm

Dairies call on Government to cap nursery milk claims

Charity to work with deprived areas to improve children's health

Keeping toddlers happy and healthy at Christmas

Children missing out on free nursery and school milk

Millions of families cutting back on healthy food that is twice as expensive as unhealthy options

LEYF opens up its chef training academy to all nurseries

Action plan sets out ways to tackle low take-up of school meals

The big picture: Healthy habits

Universal free school meals for Primary 1 to 3 pupils in Scotland

Government maps out changes to Nursery Milk scheme

DfE to fund breakfast club provision in thousands of schools

Health experts call on political parties to address diet-related disease in children

Concerns raised by professionals over children's nutrition

London Assembly calls for expansion of free school meals

Boost school nursing to tackle childhood obesity, says Unite

Concerns raised over school meals as Children's Food Trust loses funding

'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

Government launches new obesity strategy

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