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New scheme to help children learn about the benefits of milk

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.

Campaign 'names and shames' stores that sell junk food at the checkout

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Monday, September 16, 2013

| Nursery World

A new campaign has been launched to urge supermarkets to remove unhealthy snacks from checkouts and queuing areas.

More than 70,000 children in London going to bed hungry

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

| Nursery World

According to the London Food Board, which interviewed more than 1,000 parents and children, nine per cent of children in London, the equivalent of 74,000 in real terms, sometimes or often go to bed hungry.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

'Peanut patch' could help cure nut allergies in children

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

| Nursery World

A patch designed to cure peanut allergy has seen two-thirds of children able to eat peanuts without a reaction occurring.

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.

Cambridgeshire nursery first to win children's food award

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Friday, June 7, 2013

| Nursery World

A Cambridgeshire nursery has become the first in the country to receive the Children's Food Trust's new national award for excellence in children's food.

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.

Government austerity measures could increase child poverty, warn doctors

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Friday, May 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The UK is failing its most vulnerable children and any improvements in tackling child poverty are in danger of being eroded by Government welfare policies, doctors' leaders have warned.

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.

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.

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.

Thousands of early years providers using the nutritional guidelines

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Monday, March 11, 2013

| Nursery World

More than 11,000 copies of the first-ever nutritional guidelines for early years settings have been downloaded since their launch last year.

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.

Medical professionals call for a 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks to halt obesity

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Monday, February 18, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' (AoMRC) Obesity Steering Group, made up of surgeons, paediatricians and GPs, sets out ten recommendations for healthcare professionals, local and national government, industry and schools to tackle the nation's obesity crisis.

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 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.

Prime Minister urged to intervene on nursery milk consultation

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

| Nursery World

The School and Nursery Milk Alliance has written to the Prime Minister to highlight its concerns about the Department of Health consultation on nursery milk.

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New scheme to help children learn about the benefits of milk

Campaign 'names and shames' stores that sell junk food at the checkout

More than 70,000 children in London going to bed hungry

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

Restaurant children's menus dominated by unhealthy foods

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

Nursery World Awards 2013 - the shortlists revealed

Greggs charity expands breakfast clubs

'Peanut patch' could help cure nut allergies in children

School survey reveals how poverty blights children's lives

Cambridgeshire nursery first to win children's food award

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

Government austerity measures could increase child poverty, warn doctors

London Assembly calls for expansion of free school meals

Dairies call on Government to cap nursery milk claims

Baby food blamed for children eating too many calories

Thousands of early years providers using the nutritional guidelines

Many children living in poverty not eligible for free school meals

Concerns raised by professionals over children's nutrition

Medical professionals call for a 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks to halt obesity

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

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

Prime Minister urged to intervene on nursery milk consultation

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