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Our February and March in events: auto-enrolment, early years nutrition and local leadership

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Over February and March, the team travelled everywhere from Blackpool to Birmingham, City Hall to Oxford, joining conversations with researchers, practitioners, policymakers and local authorities working to improve food systems across the UK. Discussions centred on how policy can help create healthier and more equitable food environments, from auto-enrolment and commercial baby food reform to strengthening support for early years […]

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The Early Years Food Coalition attends the launch of the new APPG on Dietary Health 

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Rosie Osborne and Dayna Brackley were pleased to represent the Early Years Food Coalition in joining MPs, Peers, charities, academics and campaigners at Portcullis House last week, for the launch of the new All Party Parliamentary Group on Dietary Health; alongside Carole Coulon of Impact on Urban Health who fund the Coalition.  Perina Holness, Headteacher of the Thomas Coram Centre and a member of our new Practitioner Advisory Group,

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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 

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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 

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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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Still Too Young To Count? Reflecting six months on 

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

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

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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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Working with councils to improve child health and tackle inequalities 

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Across the country, councils are working hard to make sure every child has access to good food, whether through early years support, free school meals or wider healthy weight or anti-poverty strategies. But we know how complex this can be. Food provision across childhood often sits across multiple teams, services and settings, making it hard

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

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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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Follow the Carrot: can free school meal expansion boost the UK food and farming economy? 

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Today we’re publishing Follow the Carrot, the final report for our research that asked a simple question: could expanding free school meals also strengthen the UK food and farming economy?  Our analysis suggests the answer is yes, if expansion is matched with the right conditions for success.  Commissioned by Sustain and with support from the

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