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

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.

School survey reveals how poverty blights children's lives

News

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.

Family Health: Dear Parent

Features

Monday, July 14, 2014

| Nursery World

In a letter to all parents of young children, Dr Raj Thakkar offers some guidance on both common and more serious medical conditions, what symptoms to look out for, and how to treat them

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

News

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.

Home Learning - A parent’s guide to…healthy eating

Features

Monday, May 2, 2016

| Nursery World

Getting a child to eat and drink a nutritionally balanced diet can be difficult. Penny Tassoni provides some useful tips

A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition - On the MEND

Features

Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

Community intervention programme MEND is helping families to be more positive about healthy eating and exercise. Caroline Vollans sees the programme in action in Westminster

More Scottish families to benefit from 'holiday hunger clubs'

News

Thursday, June 1, 2017

| Nursery World

A programme in which schools provide food and support to families in need during the summer holidays has been expanded, following a pilot of the scheme.

Baby food blamed for children eating too many calories

News

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.

Health & Nutrition - At heart

Features

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Nursery World Award winner George Perkins Day Nursery has spread its health ethos to the whole community, finds Meredith Jones Russell

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

News

Monday, September 16, 2013

| Nursery World

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

Positive Relationships: Mealtimes - Chew it over

Features

Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

Mealtimes can present a number of challenges for both practitioners and parents. Penny Tassoni looks at the key issues and suggests some ways of addressing them.

Healthier foods served at nurseries in nutritional training trial

News

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.

Health & Nutrition - Eat your greens

Features

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

Children are naturally averse to eating unfamiliar vegetables, but there are tactics that families and practitioners can use to encourage them. Meredith Jones Russell reports

A Unique Child: Nutrition - Come dine with us!

Features

Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Sharing food with parents helps to forge strong partnerships, says Snapdragons' Mary Llewellin

Health & Nutrition - Field to fork

Features

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Nursery World

A food ethos which encourages quality, independence and an understanding of the origins of what we eat bagged one setting first prize at the Nursery World Awards earlier this year. Meredith Jones Russell reports

Health & Nutrition - Going hungry

Features

Thursday, April 28, 2022

| Nursery World

With food insecurity that rose during the pandemic set to continue for many families, Meredith Jones Russell reports on the crisis and asks what help is available

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

News

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.

Nursery Management: Nutrition - Fat-fighters

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Parents of overweight children are often in denial about the problem or claim to be simply too busy to address it – so how should settings approach the issue? Gabriella Jozwiak finds out

Keeping toddlers happy and healthy at Christmas

News

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.