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Food Foundation Early Years Report 2025
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Boosting Early Years Nutrition to Support a Healthy Childhood

A chronic lack of investment and attention on the early years is resulting in widespread health and diet inequalities, creating unnecessary barriers to providing nutritious food.

To give our children the best opportunities and start in life, we must invest in supporting good nutrition in the early years. Doing so can set the younger generations up for lifelong learning and good health, in turn boosting the economy and reducing pressure on the NHS.

This report explores some of the critical challenges and barriers families face in providing nutritious food for our youngest children at home and in early years settings.

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Boosting Early Years Nutrition to Support a Healthy Childhood is the final report in a series that has progressed stage-by-stage, through a child’s early years. Previous reports have focused on pregnancy and infant feeding.

For policy recommendations from across the series click here

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