Healthy Eating Policy Early Years project Gibraltar 2011
I have initiated and I am currently implementing a healthy eating campaign for babies and young children inGibraltar. My aim is to introduce a healthy eating policy into every early years setting inGibraltar.
Sources:
Scottish Executive. 2006 Nutritional Guidance for early years: food choices for children aged 1-5 years in education and childcare settings.
Infant and Toddler Forum and their website for parents: little people’s plates
Mary Rudolf. 2009 NHS ‘Tackling obesity through the healthy child programme: a framework for action’.
HSEIreland. 2006 National Guidelines for community based practitioners on prevention and management of childhood overweight and obesity.
NICE guidance 2006 Obesity.
www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk 2000 ‘learning to eat well: nutrition initiatives in schools’.
www.Schoolfoodtrust.org.uk 2006 Guidance for food and drink provision in early years settings /HPA
Health Promotion Agency 2001 Nutrition matters for the early years: Guidance for feeding under fives in the childcare setting.
Change 4 Life ‘Early years guide’
CatherineWalkerTrust 2006 ‘ Eating well for under 5s in childcare: Practical and nutritional guidelines.
DOH 2009 Birth to 5
Settings:
Parent and child society
MOD settings:Chilton Court, Monkey Capers
Trinity toddlers playgroup
Aping About
Waterbabies Private Nursery
Little Learners 20062066 57 Willis’s Road
Little Twinkles 297 main st Wesley house
Mother Goose Queensway
St Theresa’sLine Wall RoadandMain ST.
VarylBeggNursery school
St Pauls
Governors Meadow
StMarysTownRange
St Bernards Castle
Notre Dam
ST Josephs
Loreto Convent nursery and school
