A practical guide to introducing the new national voluntary food and drink guidelines for early years settings
This guide has been developed to help early years providers and practitioners meet the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) welfare requirement for the provision of healthy, balanced and nutritious food and drink.
This guide is for early years providers and practitioners providing meals, snacks or drinks to children aged one to five years. All regulated providers are encouraged to use this guide, regardless of the amount of time children spend in the setting, which include:
- children’s centres,
- registered childminders and nannies,
- private, voluntary and independent nurseries,
- local authority maintained nursery schools,
- nursery classes within primary schools,
- pre-schools,
- sessional settings such as playgroups.
Non-regulated settings, such as parent and toddler groups, are also encouraged to use this guide when planning and providing food and drink for children.
The practical guide has seven interrelated sections. Please see links below to download for free the guide as a complete document, or by section. We would recommend that all sections of the guide are downloaded so that providers have the full information.
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Early Years Resources Order Form Order your hard copies by completing this form and returning to us as instructed on the form. Click here to download (Adobe pdf doc 442KB) |
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Voluntary Food and Drink Guidelines for Early Years Settings in England – A Practical Guide Click here to download |
You can download sections of the guide using the links below if you don’t want to download everything.
