{"id":18074,"date":"2025-06-05T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18074"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:23:21","slug":"early-years-foundation-stage-nutrition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/early-years-foundation-stage-nutrition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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=70b806bc-6372-43ed-8872-18d794946d58&amp;utm_content=daily\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/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 (EYFS) 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\u00a0EYFS\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>Change made: updated the guidance. From September 2025, providers must take this guidance into account and follow it unless there is good reason not to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food. From September 2025, providers must take this guidance into account and follow it unless there is good reason not to.<\/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-18074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:37:48","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\/18074","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=18074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18076,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074\/revisions\/18076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}