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Bremner & Co to explore how supermarket environments can support healthier early years outcomes in Wales, with Public Health Wales and First Steps Nutrition Trust 

Photo credit: © 2023. Provided by Impact on Urban Health licensed via a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.  Bremner & Co are delighted to be working with Public Health Wales and First Steps Nutrition Trust on a new project examining how supermarket and retail environments in Wales could better support healthier outcomes for babies and young children, […]

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Unlocking almost £50 million for disadvantaged pupils: The impact of ‘universal registration’ across London boroughs

The Mayor of London’s latest announcement confirms that universal registration has helped identify more than 20,200 previously unregistered pupils, unlocking almost £50 million in additional funding for London schools. We are incredibly proud to have partnered with Basis to support the Greater London Authority in evaluating this work and strengthening how impact is captured across

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New County Council Network report on free school meals is published 

The County Councils Network has published a new Dialogues report on free school meals, developed in partnership with Basis and Bremner & Co.  We are pleased to have supported this work alongside colleagues across the sector. It reflects a growing focus among councils on how to ensure that children who are entitled to free school meals are actually receiving them, and

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Bremner & Co to deliver Early Years Food Provision Landscape Review with Public Health Wales 

Bremner & Co are delighted to be working with Public Health Wales on a new project aimed at strengthening understanding of food provision across early years settings in Wales, supporting action towards a healthier, fairer future for children and families.  About the project  This project will deliver a comprehensive landscape review of early years food

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Still Too Young To Count? Reflecting six months on 

This month, I was pleased to author an article on our free early years meals (FEYM) research for Nursery World’s EYE Early Years Educator (EYE) supplement. Writing it several months on from when the research was originally published provided an opportunity to reflect on how much has moved on even in that short time, and how the findings continue to shape our conversations across

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Bremner & Co joins the new Commercial Baby Food Review 

Bremner & Co are pleased to announce that we have joined the Commercial Baby Food Review, a new cross-sector initiative working to improve the nutritional quality, composition and marketing of commercial baby and toddler foods in the UK through stronger, enforced regulation.  Funded by Impact on Urban Health, the Review brings together specialists in early years nutrition,

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A shared vision for breastfeeding and infant feeding: sector leadership in action 

Today we are pleased to celebrate the publication of a new, collective vision for breastfeeding and infant feeding in the UK. This vision has been shaped by breastfeeding organisations, practitioners, NGOs and academics across the UK, working together to articulate what all families should be able to expect from a supportive, equitable infant feeding system.  The vision reflects the depth of expertise,

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The Early Years Food Coalition is recruiting for a Parent Advisory Group

We are looking for parents and carers to join a new Parent Advisory Group for the Early Years Food Coalition (EYFC). We believe every child deserves the best start in life, and having access to healthy, inclusive, and sustainable food in the early years is key to this. The EYFC has been working with charities,

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New report: 290,000 disadvantaged young children will miss out on free meals  

Press release A new report – ‘Too young to count’ – reveals that, despite rising hunger and poverty, most children in childcare are excluded from free meal support. Read exclusive coverage in The Independent here. Nearly 300,000 young children in poverty will miss out on free meals in nurseries and childcare settings, according to a

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Auto-enrolment of free school meals – A ‘No Brainer’?

Bremner & Co, with colleagues from FixOurFood, are accepted for publication in Public Health Nutrition. We’re excited to share that our work on free school meals auto-enrolment has just been published in the Public Health Nutrition journal! It’s a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come and how close we are to solving a

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