The Early Years Alliance and nursery group the London Early Years Foundation have joined forces to launch a survey about meals provision and vitamin in early years settings.
The survey goals to achieve supplier views on meals provision throughout the early years sector and the challenges related to giving kids entry to wholesome, balanced and nutritious meals.
Responses will likely be used to assist efforts to affect authorities coverage with the intention of enhancing early years meals provision and funding. All particular person survey responses will likely be saved nameless.
Neil Leitch, CEO of the Early Years Alliance, mentioned, ‘All kids, no matter their background or circumstances, ought to have entry to wholesome, balanced and nutritious meals to supply them with the mandatory power to study, assist them to keep up wholesome existence and to develop optimistic relationships with meals from the earliest alternative.
‘As we head into the autumn and winter months, many household budgets will likely be stretched even additional and, for some kids, the meals they obtain at their early years setting could possibly be the one nutritious meals they obtain throughout the week. Providers are effectively conscious of their obligations on this essential space, however they want entry to life like monetary assist and steering to have the ability to ship this.
‘With the continuing cost-of-living disaster, now’s an opportune and important time to discover how – or if – settings are managing to ship wholesome meals of their settings, and to determine any challenges to doing so and the way they are often addressed. As such, we hope that as many educators as doable will reply to this survey and make their voices heard.’
June O’Sullivan, CEO of the London Early Years Foundation, mentioned, ‘By serving all kids wholesome and nutritious meals, early years settings can play an important function in making certain they get the important balanced nourishment required for progress and improvement. However, the sector shouldn’t be sufficiently supported to supply such high-quality, accessible and reasonably priced meals to the 1.5 million kids who attend early years settings annually. This is why our new survey will hopefully ship contemporary proof on meals provision throughout the sector and spotlight its key challenges in order that we will foyer for optimistic change in authorities coverage and enhance in kids’s well being.”
https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/article/call-for-settings-to-take-part-in-early-years-nutrition-survey
