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Understand the impact of health and well-being on babies and young children’s development
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'Nutrition is vital in laying the foundation of a healthy child. Here's how a poor diet impacts a child's health’ on the Parent Circle website
'The impact of poverty on child health’ from the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health.
'Mental health, resilience and inequalities’ is a commentary by the Mental Health Foundation
'Wellbeing and resilience’ from Reach Out.
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Click to read ‘Diet makes a difference to learning’ from the Centre for Educational Neuroscience.
'UK and global malnutrition: The new normal’ from The Food Foundation examines the short- and long-term damage that poor diet does to children.
The Food Foundation has also produced this article ‘New data show 4 million children in households affected by food insecurity’
The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) has a document ‘The role of childcare professionals in supporting mental health and wellbeing in young people: a literature review’
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