Resources
Policy Brief 3 – A call to update the National Get Up & Grow guidelines and associated resources
Policy Brief 3 What is the problem? It is time to update or replace the Get Up & Grow guidelines and associated resources to ensure a national support tool that is current, useable, driven by...
Increasing Food Expenditure in Long Day-Care by an Extra $0.50 Per Child/Day Would Improve Core Food Group Provision
Early childhood education and care services are a significant feature of Australian family life, where nearly 1.4 million children attended a service in 2019. This paper reports on the cost of...
Measuring food provision in Western Australian long day care (LDC) services: a weighed food record method/protocol at a service level
Background There are currently 1.3 million children utilising Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services in Australia. Long day care (LDC), family day care and out of school hours care...
Healthy Kids – Munch & Move resources
The Munch & Move program offers a suite of practical resources for early childhood educators to use in their practice to promote healthy lifestyles to children aged 0-5 years....
Northern Territory Nutrition and Physical Activity Resources
Nutrition and physical activity - NT Health
Policy Brief 2 – A case for mapping Food Provision across jurisdictions and ECEC services and settings: How one tick box can build and support the bigger picture in early childhood health and education development
Policy Brief 2 Over 900,000 children up to school-age attend ECEC services,1 meaning that these children could be accessing of their daily dietary intake whilst at an ECEC service. ECEC services...
Policy Brief 1 – Achieving Equality and Equity in the Provision of Food and Nutrition Support in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: Opportunities and Actions for System Change in Australia.
Policy Brief 1 There is a lack of equality in the provision and accessibility of initiatives, programs, services, training and resources which support ECEC settings to provide safe and healthy...
Evidence Brief 1 – Achieving Equality and Equity in the Provision of Food and Nutrition Support in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: Opportunities and Actions for System Change in Australia
Evidence Brief 1 Evidence-based interventions are effective in: promoting and achieving practice improvements and change in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings, and improving...
NAQ Nutrition’s Food Foundations Program for ECEC settings
As educators and specialists in the early years industry, you play an invaluable role to our children’s futures. Health and nutrition play an integral part of every child’s life. Ensuring...