Healthy Early Years London resources

Including breastfeeding and starting solid food

• Child weight management: short conversations with families
• Eat better, start better - a practical guide.
• Eating Well Sustainably: A Guide for Early Years Settings (PDF 1.1MB)
• Change4Life: helpful food swaps and tips from NHS Choices
• Change4Life Food Scanner app: see the sugar, fat, salt and calories in popular foods and drinks (Apple or Android)
• Early Start Nutrition Team - online training offer
• Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Maternity and breastfeeding, Starting solid food, Healthy eating and Healthy Start scheme and welfare support
• Veg Power Campaign: Eat them to defeat them: Veg Power website, Social Media toolkit and infographics.
• Taste ‘n’ Tell Discovering Food Programme: Sign up for free pilot programme.
• Healthy Start: A toolkit for local action
• Breastfeeding resources for schools, Association of breastfeeding mothers

• Oral hygiene programme: Let's Talk About Teeth
• Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Oral health

Including physical development and reducing sedentary behaviour

• activematters
• SSEHS Active Fact Sheets
• Start active, stay active: infographics on physical activity
• 10 Minute Shake Ups
• Early Movers practitioner training
• Screen time and young children: Promoting health and development in a digital world
• Practical ideas for physically active play
• Help your baby move and play every day
• Help your child move and play every day
• Child weight management services: systematic review
• Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years (0-4 years)
• Start active, stay active: report on physical activity in the UK
• Every child a mover
• Every Child a Mover: A practical guide to providing young children with the physical opportunities they need on physical activity in the UK
• Children’s Traffic Club London (CTCL)
• Early Years Physical Literacy Framework
• Youth Sport Trust training and resources
• Video commissioned by Camden Council Integrated Early Years: Moving, Learning and Growing
• Pre-school Learning Alliance resource: Moving Right from the Start
• Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Physical activity and Sleep
• Active Movement website and resources
• Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS)
• Guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children under 5 years of age

Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Speech and Language

• Enhancing Opportunities for Toddlers’ Wellbeing: TOWE website and resources
• Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Child Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Five tips to ease your children into a sleep routine: health24

• Free Resources to support those living and working with Special Needs and Disabled Children

• Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Immunisations
• Immunisations: resources for nurseries and schools, Public Health England

- Mental health

- Alcohol and substance misuse

- Smoking

• Islington Early Years Health and Wellbeing resources: Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing and Smoking, alcohol and substance misuse
• Drink and Drug News: Alcohol and health leaflet
• Institute of Health Visiting: Top Tips for parents

For example: air quality or energy saving

• Trees for Schools programme
• Edible playgrounds