Sufficient healthy food and drink provided

[mjane]

Hello,
If anyone could offer advice/opinion please, if this is correct or on the right track!

Children's Health and Safety Assessment

Describe how you can ensure children have sufficient healthy food and drink provided to them when they attend child care where:

a) Meals are provided for the children by the centre
b) Families provide food for the children

(Guidance - In your answers, discuss how you will ensure individual children's dietary and calorie intake needs are met)


a) Child care need to provide regular healthy meals, snacks and drinks, this can be done by ensuring the centre has healthy eating policies and healthy menu plans, suitable to the developmental stages of different age groups. Children with special dietary needs should be taken into consideration and catered for. Healthy fluids should not only be provided at meal times but available throughout the day

b)Whilst children are in care, educators can encourage and support families to provide healthy meals by:

-Ensuring families follow the current centre policies e.g. water only -Encouraging families that the food provided is consistent with - Australian government guidelines get up and grow: Healthy Eating and physical Activity for Early Childhood -Discussing the importance of the correct age dietary intake for healthy growth and development -Nutrition websites -Pamphlets -Discussing/information relating to the dangers of unhealthy food

Thank you =)

Mel

[Lorina]

Hi Mel,

You're definitely on the right track with your responses!

,
Lorina

[mjane]

Thank you Lorina =)
Do you think this will be enough or should I add more?
Thank you again

[Lorina]

I think it's fine but if you want to add more:

[attachment=0]food_nutrition_early_childhood.pdf[/attachment]
,
Lorina

[mjane]

Oh good !! Thank you so much, I think I will leave it as is =)