Nursery World - Interview

Project manager for the Coventry Healthy Early Years Setting Award (CHEYSA).

You launched the award last year, what progress has been made?

We've been 'live' for 18 months and so far 106 private and voluntary settings and children's centres have signed up for the award - half of them have completed it and half are well on their way to achieving it. There are now only 29 early years settings yet to register.

Anybody who has direct contact with children from birth to five should be delivering public health messages.

We deliver the Making Every Contact Counts - Brief Interventions in Healthy Lifestyles Training to all settings. We tailor it to key workers so they are able to talk to parents, when they are dropping off and collecting their children, in ways that are supportive and non-judgemental. We also run oral health training to advise nurseries on the impact of diet on children's teeth. We work with many different agencies, for example, the infant feeding team who run UNICEF-approved training to support breastfeeding. We're also working with the Start Active, Stay Active team to train staff to support parents with keeping babies active.

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