Food, Nutrition And Associated Behaviours training

Many children and young people come into care with a poor nutritional status. They often have food anxieties (such as overeating or hoarding food) which can be linked to early experiences of abuse or neglect.

Access this course as part of the following online course package(s):

Foster Care

This course will cover:
  • Why healthy eating matters
  • What is healthy eating
  • What the main food groups are and the nutrition they provide
  • How to encourage children and young people to eat well
  • Healthy body weight
  • Food allergies and intolerances
  • Why and how to get children to be more active

This Food, Nutrition And Associated Behaviours course has been designed specifically for people who would like to learn more about how food anxieties can be linked to to abuse or neglect.Whilst it provides focus for people working in Children's Services, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about encouraging children to eat well and develop a healthy relationship with food.We can deliver this course either: online, as a webinar, or as a face-to-face programme. If you have your own LMS and would like this course as a SCORM file, please get in touch.

The online version of this course will take 3 hours to complete. The webinar versions are usually 2-3 hours long and face to face delivery will usually be around 4-5 hours.

You can access this course in three ways, as an online course, as a webinar, or with face-to-face delivery.

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Food, Nutrition And Associated Behaviours eLearning course - Grey Matter Learning

Aims of the Food, Nutrition And Associated Behaviours course

By the end of this training, you will:

  • Understand why healthy eating matters
  • Know what the main food groups are and the nutrition they provide
  • Understand how to encourage children and young people to eat well
  • Understand why and how to get children to be more active
  • Understand what a food aversion is
  • Understand which eating disorders affect children in care
  • Understand how can you help children with these food behaviours

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