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Early Intervention Foundation to work with 20 best practice areas

Thursday, August 8, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation has named the 20 'pioneering places' it will work closely with to provide 'real-life', practical answers about how to deliver early intervention to the best effect.

Labour MPS call for integrated approach to overcome inequality

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Labour politicians Dame Tessa Jowell and Ivan Lewis MP have called for a focus on early intervention among poverty-stricken children to be at the heart of the post-2015 framework for developing countries.

Greggs charity expands breakfast clubs

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The charity run by the bakery chain Greggs has just opened its 12th breakfast club this year.

School survey reveals how poverty blights children's lives

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

| Nursery World

Fifty-five per cent of school support staff have seen an increase this year in the number of children relying on breakfast clubs, finds new research.

Healthier foods served at nurseries in nutritional training trial

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The first training sessions to help early years practitioners deliver the nutritional guidelines have led to 'big improvements' to the food served at settings, finds new research.

Poll reveals children don't know where their food comes from

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Monday, June 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of primary school children think that cheese comes from plants and nearly one in five believe fish fingers come from chicken.

Welfare cuts force more than a million people in the UK to turn to food aid

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report from Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty warns that Britain faces a hidden scandal where thousands of people cannot feed themselves or their families.

Co-sleeping raises cot death risk

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents who share a bed with their breastfed baby increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome five-fold, warns a new study, the largest analysis of its kind.

Grants available for projects that boost vitamin D in children

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners can apply for a grant of up to 5,000 to fund projects that raise awareness of the importance of vitamin D and boost the intake in pre-school children.

Light drinking during in pregnancy 'not harmful'

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Light drinking during pregnancy does not harm child behavioural or cognitive development, according to new research by University College London.

Measles cases in Wales hit record high

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents in Wales are being urged to act quickly to vaccinate their children against measles as the number of cases hits 765.

Family Nurse Partnership to be extended

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The Family Nurse Partnership is to be extended to provide support to 16,000 of the most disadvantaged new mothers and fathers in England by 2015.

Baby food blamed for children eating too many calories

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Government research reveals that children are consuming too many calories and more salt than is recommended, with the biggest contributors being infant formula and commercial baby foods.

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.

Taking folic acid during pregnancy could reduce the risk of autism

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Pregnant women could reduce their child's risk of autism by 40 per cent with the consumption of folic acid supplements according to recent research.

Toddlers in the UK are the fussiest eaters in Europe, claims new research

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| Nursery World

The first ever European Toddler Nutrition Index, commissioned by GrowingUpMilkInfo.com, examined the attitudes to diet and food of over 2,500 mothers with toddlers in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Italy.

Pregnant women who eat peanut butter 'more likely' to have overweight children

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Pregnant women who eat more foods containing the polyunsaturated fats found in peanut butter and sunflower seeds increase their chances of having fatter children, according to research by the University of Southampton.

Government advert warns of 'hidden nasties' in foods

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Monday, January 7, 2013

| Nursery World

The first ever health-focused ad break will air tonight (7 January) as part of a new Department of Health Change4Life campaign designed to expose the amount of salt, fat and sugar in everyday foods and help people become 'food smart'.

New resource to help nurseries and schools with children's toileting problems

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

| Nursery World

A new guide offers advice to nurseries to help them cope with a rise in the number of young children in early years settings and schools who are not toilet-trained.

Greater access to vitamin D supplements would 'cut the cases of rickets'

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Friday, December 14, 2012

| Nursery World

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has called for vitamin D supplements to be made more widely available to children.

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Early Intervention Foundation to work with 20 best practice areas

Labour MPS call for integrated approach to overcome inequality

Greggs charity expands breakfast clubs

School survey reveals how poverty blights children's lives

Healthier foods served at nurseries in nutritional training trial

Poll reveals children don't know where their food comes from

Welfare cuts force more than a million people in the UK to turn to food aid

Co-sleeping raises cot death risk

Grants available for projects that boost vitamin D in children

Light drinking during in pregnancy 'not harmful'

Measles cases in Wales hit record high

Family Nurse Partnership to be extended

Baby food blamed for children eating too many calories

Concerns raised by professionals over children's nutrition

Taking folic acid during pregnancy could reduce the risk of autism

Toddlers in the UK are the fussiest eaters in Europe, claims new research

Pregnant women who eat peanut butter 'more likely' to have overweight children

Government advert warns of 'hidden nasties' in foods

New resource to help nurseries and schools with children's toileting problems

Greater access to vitamin D supplements would 'cut the cases of rickets'

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