{"id":17801,"date":"2025-04-24T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:00:54","slug":"early-years-foundation-stage-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/early-years-foundation-stage-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New guidance helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food.<\/p>\n<p>This guidance is for early years providers in England who are caring for early years children aged 0 to 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>It supports providers in meeting the Early Years Foundation Stage (<abbr title=\"Early Years Foundation Stage\">EYFS<\/abbr>) statutory framework requirement \u2018Where children are provided with meals, snacks and drinks, these must be healthy, balanced and nutritious\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>From September 2025, the\u00a0<abbr title=\"Early Years Foundation Stage\">EYFS<\/abbr>\u00a0statutory framework will include a safeguarding and welfare requirement that asks providers to follow this nutrition guidance unless there is good reason not to.<\/p>\n<p>To view the guidance in full please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/early-years-foundation-stage-nutrition?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&amp;utm_source=5ef961e6-3841-4130-8dfa-0d32e8f47239&amp;utm_content=daily\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New guidance helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 14:39:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17804,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions\/17804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}