How can Tiny Tums help childcare providers?

Childcare practitioners are in an ideal position to help shape eating habits and support children to eat well.

Settings that achieve the Tiny Tums Best Practice Award:

✓ Align with the Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) quality standards on nutrition

✓ Automatically meet nutrition and oral health standards of Healthy and Sustainable Pre-School Scheme

✓ Fully comply with the Welsh Government Best Practice Guidance: Food and Nutrition for Childcare settings (2018)

✓ Provide the right balance of nutritious food and drink to meet the dietary recommendations for infants and preschool children

✓ Encourage children to eat well in a healthy environment and learn about food

✓ Promote consistency of nutrition messages and encourage opportunities to pass these messages on to families

✓ Show families that they are committed to the health of pre-school children by encouraging them to adopt good eating habits and develop positive attitudes toward a healthy balanced diet

✓ Have at least one staff member trained by Public Health Dietitians in early years nutrition

✓ Can display the Tiny Tums logo for parents and families to see

To find out how being a Tiny Tums accredited childcare provider also benefits children in your care and their families visit why choose a Tiny Tums accredited childcare provider for your child? - Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (nhs.wales).

To find out more about the Tiny Tums Best Practice award and how to start your application visit How can a childcare provider apply for the Tiny Tums Best Practice award?