Guidance
Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition
Helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for early years providers in England who are caring for early years children aged 0 to 5 years.
It supports providers in meeting the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework requirement ‘Where children are provided with meals, snacks and drinks, these must be healthy, balanced and nutritious’.
From September 2025, the EYFS statutory framework will include a safeguarding and welfare requirement that asks providers to follow this nutrition guidance unless there is good reason not to.
Updates to this page
Published 17 April 2025