This report represents a snapshot of community and voluntary sector activity that supported maternal and infant nutrition at a particular point in time – spring 2012.
Topic: women and mothers
From the ground up
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: babies, case studies, children, diet and nutrition, parents and carers, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Fare Choice Issue 55
Food practices among low-income mothers with young children; community food initiatives tackling food poverty in Ireland; young people, food and health; Healthy Living Tastes Better
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: babies, disadvantaged communities, early years, food training, low income, minority ethnic, women and mothers, young people
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 34
4th Healthy Scotland Convention; PA training: On Track conference; SCOFF nutrition research; Community Retailing Network; Khush Dil; Question Time; Edinburgh Cyrenians; Happy Heart.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: diet and nutrition, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, minority ethnic, obesity and overweight, older people, parliaments, policy, research, women and mothers
Area of Work: Information provision
Healthy Start
Notes from a roundtable discussion on the proposed reforms to the UK’s existing Welfare Food Scheme as outlined in the Department of Health’s consultation document ‘Healthy Start’.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: affordability, bottle feeding, breast feeding, free milk and food vouchers, infant nutrition, milk, shops, weaning, women and mothers
Good Enough to Eat?
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.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Children and young people
Related topics: breast feeding, pregnancy and maternal health, women and mothers, young people
Area of Work: Families with children
Strengthening food work across ethnic minority communities: a focus on maternal and infant nutrition
This mapping exercise was carried out to provide a snapshot of voluntary and community organisations’ activity in relation to maternal and infant nutrition across ethnic minority communities in Scotland.