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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.

Early Intervention Foundation to work with 20 best practice areas

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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.

Restaurant children's menus dominated by unhealthy foods

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

| Nursery World

New research shows that children's menus at many of the UK's leading restaurants and pubs offer foods such as chicken nuggets and burgers.

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.

Iodine deficiency linked to low child IQ levels

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Iodine deficiency in pregnancy may lower a child's IQ according to research from the universities of Bristol and Surrey.

Quicker referrals needed to combat children's eye cancer

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Babies and young children are facing serious delays in receiving treatment for eye cancer symptoms claims, according to research by the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT).

The UK is 'one of the worst places to be a mother' in Europe

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

| Nursery World

The United Kingdom has been ranked in 23rd place for the best country in the world to be a mother.

Music therapy can comfort premature babies

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Playing live music to a premature baby can slow their heartbeat and help the child breathe more easily, a study has found.

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.

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.

Breakfast clubs vital for disadvantaged children

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

| Nursery World

Almost half of education staff believe that without a breakfast club pupils who use them wouldn't have any food before lessons, according to a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

Early years resources focus on healthy eating for toddlers

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| Nursery World

The Infant and Toddler forum is going back to basics with healthy eating resources in response to the rise in childhood obesity.

Many children living in poverty not eligible for free school meals

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Friday, March 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Huge numbers of children living below the poverty line do not qualify for free school meals according to research by The Children's Society.

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.

Save the Children campaigns to highlight breastfeeding drop

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Monday, February 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The lives of 830,000 babies a year could be saved if new mothers around the world breastfed straight after giving birth, according to Save the Children.