Pre-school Education: Food

(asked on 1st February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will extend the statutory school food standards to all early-year settings.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 6th February 2018

The Early Years Foundation Stage framework welfare requirement is that where food and drink is provided by early years settings, this must be ‘healthy, balanced and nutritious’. We have recently published example menus and guidance to help early years settings meet this requirement, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/example-menus-for-early-years-settings-in-england. Maintained nursery schools and nursery units within primary schools must continue to meet the mandatory food-based standards for school lunches.

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