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Islington Eating Well Together: Making Healthy Choices the Easy Choices London Flagship Food Boroughs June 2014

Self-sufficiency Partnerships Replicable Building a Healthy Children’s Choices Fair Commitment Start Islington Eating Well Together: Making Healthy Choices the Easy Choices Connecting Healthy Choices for Social Track record cohesion through Food Teenage Appetites Intergenerational Quality of universal Reducing inequality provision

High need & significant opportunity 52% residents live within the 38% children live in poverty 20% most deprived areas of 2 nd highest in England England 46% primary and 44% secondary Food bank demand has doubled eligible for free school meals in the last year 36% of Year 6, 23% of 6 th worst in London for chronic reception children are liver disease deaths overweight or obese

Strand 1: Building a Healthy Start Key achievements Flagship Activities The First 21 • Universal Healthy Start • Maximise use of Healthy Start Months vitamins vouchers • Breastfeeding support - high rates of breastfeeding Progress at two • Integrated health and • Parents well informed about education review - one of 4 Islington Eating Well resources national pilots and activities Great food in great • Pioneering Healthy Children’s • Quality and impact of food and childcare Centre Programme the food environment central to • 1000 childcare places for all Islington early years settings disadvantaged two year olds

Strand 2: Healthy Food for Children & Families Key achievements Flagship Activities Gold standard • Universal free school meals • Engaging parents in healthy food school meals for all nursery and primary • Sharing good practice with other school pupils : 88% take-up boroughs Healthy Schools • Breakfast clubs in 89% of • Schools Forum fund for schools innovative school food projects • 84% of schools engaged in (£100K) healthy schools Adventures with • Healthy Holiday Provision • An Eatwell workforce for Islington: food: playing, • Young people growing, cooking • Volunteers • Support into work Support for weight • Children and young people • School nurses supporting families concern obesity care pathway re: weight concerns and more engaged in NCMP

Strand 3: Healthy Choices for Teenage Appetites Key achievements Flagship Activities Supporting Skills • CCG funded Youth Health • Build on Arsenal’s work to support Trainers programme vulnerable young people to develop cooking and nutrition skills Young people as • Successful Healthy Catering • Healthy Retailers scheme to be customers Commitment co-produced with young people Planning for health • All secondary schools have a • Maximise planning powers to limit ‘ closed gate’ policy during takeaways opening near schools school lunch

Strand 4: Connecting through Food Key achievements Flagship Activities Islington’s culture • Good Food for London • Islington’s Food Strategy as a of food Award: winners every year Flagship borough Tackling food • High profile Love Food: • Partner with Plan Zheroes to use poverty: reducing Hate Waste campaigns surplus food in Eat Well projects to food waste reduce hunger Intergenerational • Intergenerational • Intergenerational meals: utilising food projects gardening projects school resources and encouraging volunteering opportunities

Improved health indicators Delivering Unique food sustainable environment & innovative projects Where we will be in 5 years? Sharing Stronger good network of practice partners Healthy food embedded within early years

Mum went to see She was referred the midwife at 8 The local to family support at weeks and adventure her children’s registered for playground has a centre where she Healthy Start pizza oven: Uche went to cook and loved being six eat sessions and and going along to collected her choose toppings vitamins Uche starts to learn to cook at Uche has an integrated health school: loving mashing food review at two. They found out and making dough! The about more activities they could gardening club is exciting - do to support interaction with eating the tomatoes and other children radishes for lunch! Uche’s dad starts to volunteer Mum and dad learnt to cook at the local adventure Uche is six! the Eat Well recipes from the playground now he has more cook and eat sessions at home time: he gets a hygiene and used the Healthy Start certificate and joins a Eat Well vouchers to buy fruit and veg training programme Uche starts school and likes Uche attended ‘dad’s and school meals (mum’s child’ swimming club on pleased she doesn’t have to Saturdays: it was great that pay for them). Uche enjoys the snacks and drinks at the chatting to an older person leisure centre were similar from the flats who comes to to the Eat Well recipes school for lunch.

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