Healthy Tots

What is Healthy Tots?

Healthy Tots is a health promotion programme that is currently being rolled out to early years settings in Herefordshire. It helps early years setting to enhance and showcase their activities and efforts into providing a healthy environment for their children, parents and staff. The programme aims to provide support to establish a 'healthy culture' within early years settings empowering staff, children and parents with a view to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.

The programme has been developed by the Public Health team at Leicestershire County Council using a whole setting approach to support settings with their requirements for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework and OFSTED.

What are the benefits of becoming a Healthy Tots setting?

There are lots of benefits of becoming a Healthy Tots setting such as:

• Ongoing individual and tailored support

• Free training to improve the skills within your team across a variety of health topics for infant wellbeing

• Resources on physical activity, emotional health and wellbeing, oral health and healthy eating to support your practice delivery within the setting

• Healthy Tots certificate and licensed use of branding for two years

• Healthy Tots award pack including Healthy Tots poster, rosette and email signature

• Feature on the Healthy Tots website and promotion on the closed Facebook group

Our Aim

The aim of the Healthy Tots Programme

To provide support to establish a 'healthy culture' within early years settings empowering staff, children and parents with a view to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.

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The Healthy Tots scheme focuses on four core health themes:

• • • Healthy Eating

    • Physical Activity

    • Emotional health and wellbeing

    • Oral Health

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Once all the criteria for the programme is successfully met Loobylou's will be awarded Healthy Tots status and given licensed use of the branding for two years, when we will need to refresh the Healthy Tots status.

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