Food policy

Convening a collective voice: Secretariat for the Early Years Food Coalition

Nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life is critical for child development, shaping brain development, motor skills, and lifelong eating patterns that influence long-term health. Despite the known importance of nutrition in a child’s earliest years, nutrition support in settings has historically prioritised schools and advocacy in the early years nutrition space has been fragmented, leaving the sector overlooked and under-resourced.   Impact on Urban Health recognised that food provision in early years settings needed stronger evidence and clearer, more coordinated advocacy. In response, they established the Early Years Food Coalition, bringing together […]

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A shared vision for breastfeeding and infant feeding

All children deserve access to healthy, nutritious food from their earliest years, and ensuring parents are properly supported to feed their babies well is central to achieving this. Bremner & Co have been working with Impact on Urban Health to understand the policy landscape that shapes infant feeding and early years nutrition, identifying opportunities for change within the system.  This work

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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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What do parents and pupils really want from food education? Find out at the Hungry for Change webinar 

Food education is widely recognised as part of how young people learn to live well. Yet in practice, access is uneven. It depends on where you are, what your school prioritises, and what happens after age 16. Hungry for Change, the latest national report from Best Food Forward at The School of Artisan Food, puts some weight

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In conversation with… Jayne Jones, Chief Executive of the Scottish Food Commission

‘In conversation with…’ is a series of blog posts where we talk to inspirational people working in the world of food policy. In December last year, Rosie spoke with Jayne Jones, the inaugural Chief Executive of the Scottish Food Commission. With over 20 years working in public food, Jayne has played a leading role in

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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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New research: ‘Hungry for Change’ – what parents and pupils want from food education 

Ask almost any parent whether cooking is an important life skill and they will say yes. Ask their child and you will get the same answer. New national polling from The School of Artisan Food’s Best Food Forward programme suggests that 97% of parents and 91% of young people consider cooking healthy meals and making good

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New research: Improving access to free school meals – evaluating the implementation of free school meal auto-enrolment processes 

We are pleased to co-author the latest paper from the FixOurFood research consortium. This paper evaluates the implementation of free school meal auto-enrolment, highlighting the potential benefits, conditions for success and support needed to scale this approach.  The free school meal registration problem – project context  An estimated 220,000 entitled children miss out on free school meals because they are not registered, with schools missing out on vital, associated Pupil Premium funding. One of the main reasons families

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Our January in events: early years nutrition in Parliament, justice in the food system, and fresh fruit dolphins

January started at pace. Through conversations on school food funding, farming systems, racial justice, early years nutrition and infant feeding, the team were excited to kick start 2026 with a variety of events. We’ve taken a moment to reflect on where we have spent our time, and what it could mean for the months to come.   8th Jan School Food Funding – Caterer Roundtable  Myles joined a School

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