[CT257.5] Understand how issues of public concern may affect the image and delivery of services in the sector The public may affect the image and delivery of service as the public concern may be raised through media coverage on the tv and through press correspondents. [CU1527.1] Know the principles of healthy eating for children and young people Assessment Criteria The eat well plate shows the different types of food we need to eat and in what proportions to have a well-balanced and healthy diet. Children and young people need to have a correct balance of nutrients and food for them to develop and grow properly. The right balance helps to improve their concentration, builds up their strength and gives plenty of energy. 1.1 Outline the nutritional requirements of a healthy diet for children and young people The nutritonal requirements of a healthy diet for children and young people include: vitamins, minerals and protein, mixed with fibers which dont include salt and sugar.
The purpose of the Georgia Eat Smart is to promote good nutrition, physical activity and wellness for k-12 students and their parents. (Barger, 2013) When children become healthy students they also become better students in the classroom. By educating teachers and staff nutrition staff how to teach students to have good eating and physical activity habits will allow the students to make health choices. (Barger,
Teaching Wellness to Children and Families Marie Curie ECE 214 Instructor O’Brien March 14, 2011 Teaching Wellness to Children and Families The Self-Inventory for Wellness Practices chart in Chapter 1 of our text is a very useful tool. Reading over these practices helped me gain some insight regarding my own wellness and the wellness of young children. Everyone could benefit from completing this Self-Inventory chart. When it came to some areas of the Self-Inventory for Wellness Practices regarding myself I was pleased to be able to answer most of the areas in a positive way. However, I am definitely slacking in some of the areas.
P5: Describe how anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in Health and Social Care settings. M3: Discuss difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in Health and Social Care setting. D2: Justify ways of overcoming difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practices in Health and Social Care setting. Education: Nursery and Schools Within education sector, for example schools and nursery’s, in a nursery environment there is commonly a lot of anti-discriminatory practice in place as it is part of the pre-school and lower years curriculum to teach about the world and its different cultures. One example is that, they serve food from different cultures as part of their meal plans for the children.
208.1.1 Describe how current Health and Safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the school The key points of this act are to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons in the workplace. For protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of people at work. To find this information I researched HSE.gov.uk The School promotes Health and Safety for children and staff and others using the school premises. The school always sends a letter to parents to ask if their children have any disabilities, ailments or allergies that we need to know of, inhalers and relevant medication are kept in the school office. There is a strict rule that needs to be followed concerning children being picked up from school and if parents cannot pick their children up, meaning someone else picking them up, the school needs to know to avoid any risks of child abduction.
The role of schools is to implement or support the implementation of the national policies that relate to children, young people and families. Each Local Education Authority would take the national policies and apply them appropriately to their constituency. Take Every Child Matters for example, all schools should include the five main aims in their policies and philosophy – be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution to society and achieve economic well being. They would address this with activities such as, encouraging healthy eating, anti-bullying awareness, breakfast and after-school clubs and relevant PSHE lessons. Schools work with health and social workers, educational and clinical psychologists and create
Assist expert or other employers explore more effective prevention and treatment of obesity in childhood. Third, collaborator can be one of the role of nurse in promote targeting children obesity. Ribbitt also holds that nurses should work with a number of the multidisciplinary team in addressing childhood obesity as it is a major health issue with long-time morbidities. Cemden and Gallagher (2009) also state that dietician may be needed to give guidance and help client to meet their nutrition goal. The community nurse also work as clinician.
(Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition.) Their goal is to provide parents, caregivers and communities strategies to help children 8 to 13 maintain a healthy weight. A few of the tools and resources that are offered by We Can! are weight management, nutrition, physical activity, and reduced screen time (television) (AHRQ). Another program is School Nurse Childhood Obesity Prevention Education (SCOPE).
The CDC publishes a report called MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report). In a 1996 report entitled “Guidelines for School Health Programs to Promote Lifelong Healthy Eating”, teaching as well as providing children with knowledge of nutrition in schools can help to enhance their choices of food intake which can impact their mind development, health, and altogether growth. Gaining unhealthy eating habits can have almost immediate effects, including undernutrition, obesity, and iron deficiency (anemia). Many effects can lead to trouble learning in the classroom. The healthier food program’s goal in schools is to get kids into healthy eating habits before bad ones set in.
As a result of fact that most of the consumers seek a healthier life by using food labelling information, the most important part of food labelling might be the nutritional information labels and origin labelling. Firstly, the nutritional information labels could assists consumers to easily understand the nutritional value of the food they planned to buy and enables them to have a comparing of the nutritional values with similar food items and make healthy informed food choices based on the relevant nutrition information (cited in Washi 2012, p.38). Furthermore, the nutritional information labels are useful for people who are on special conditions, for instance, people who suffering from diabetes or cardiopathy need to select suitable food items for their health conditions. In these situations, the demand for nutrition information would increase, due to the increasingly awareness in the relationship between balanced diet and disease. Secondly, Chern and Lin claim that the origin labelling could influence the consumer’s willingness to pay food from different regions (2012, p.184).