Children and young people
Please note: Scottish Community Diet Project changed its name to Community Food and Health (Scotland) in 2006.
TV dinners: adapting TV formats to promote healthy eating and cookery skills
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
March 2011
This factsheet provides examples of how three youth groups were inspired by TV formats to create a friendly competitive environment to teach cookery skills.
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How to get beyond smoothies: top tips and ideas for healthy eating activities with young people
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
March 2011
This booklet features tips and ideas gathered from a CFHS youth, food and health networking event that focused on work with a range of young people.
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North Glasgow Youth Food Guidelines and Healthy Eating Toolkit
North Glasgow Community Food Initiative
January 2011
Following consultation with young people in the North Glasgow area, these guidelines and healthy eating toolkit were developed. As well as advice for clubs on what they can do to improve the availability of healthier food in youth clubs, the guidelines include ideas on how to run healthy eating, growing, and cookery activities, with ideas for tuckshops and recipes.
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Beyond Smoothies: developing cooking and healthy eating activities for young people
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
November 2010
This short report shows what 20 groups and agencies learnt and gained from running practical healthy eating activities and taking part in the REHIS Elementary Food and Health course
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Making the Case: Early Years Self-evaluation Collaborative Stage Three Report
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
February 2010
Making the Case is the final report from the Early Years Self-evaluation Collaborative, a three-stage pilot support programme provided (over 2 years) by CFHS and Evaluation Support Scotland to support six community food and health initiatives improve their evaluation skills
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Early Years Self-evaluation Collaborative Stage Two Interim report
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
April 2009
This report gives an account of how the Early Year Self-evaluation Collaborative has continued to embed evaluation systems into its work with parents and children. Five projects completed Stage Two and have written up individual evaluation reports that describe how they are demonstrating the impact of their work.
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Out to Lunch
Scottish Consumer Council
August 2008
The findings from a survey they commissioned of S3 and S4 pupils at three different schools to examine why young people chose to take their lunch outside school and what they bought to eat.
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Early Years Self-evaluation Collaborative: Stage One interim report
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
July 2008
This report highlights the first stage of a three part pilot programme commissioned by CFHS, and led by Evaluation Support Scotland to support six groups to show the impact of their work with parents and children aged 0-5 years. We are keen to find out from you how useful the report is to you and your work. When you have looked at the report we would be grateful if you could respond to three questions on our online survey Click Here to take survey
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0-5 children and parents including infant nutrition
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
May 2007
Notes from a roundtable discussion looking at what approaches are being developed to address health inequalities through food from a very early age.
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Breakfast Clubs... More of a Head Start: a step-by-step guide to the challenges of setting up and running breakfast clubs in Scotland
Scottish Community Diet Project
September 2004
Provides an insight into the process of developing a breakfast club at every stage from set-up to sustainability in current policy climate. Poses important questions and shares practical solutions to problems that others have encountered
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Good Enough to Eat?: The diet of pregnant teenagers
'Community Food and Health (Scotland)
May 2004
Briefing paper from joint SCDP/Maternity Alliance seminar held to discuss the range of activity already underway to improve the diet of pregnant teenagers and to identify remaining challenges and ways of tackling them together.
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Update on Reforms to the Welfare Food Scheme
Scottish Community Diet Project
March 2004
A briefing paper outlining reforms to the Welfare Food Scheme through which an estimated 800,000 people across the UK receive vouchers for free fruit and vegetables
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Fruit in Schools
Scottish Community Diet Project
May 2001
Notes from a roundtable discussion on fruit in schools involving practitioners from around the country including those with experience of operating 'fruit in schools' schemes and others charged with setting them up
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Breakfast Daze
Scottish Community Diet Project
August 1999
Report of the Scottish Community Diet Project's seminar on breakfast clubs held on 4 August 1999 in Glasgow.
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