The Year of the Family involved Underwood Children's Centre, the NSPCC,Wulvern Housing, Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, local healthvisitors, and Excellence in Crewe staff. A year ago all the partnersmade a commitment to target the families in the area of St Barnabas withfive themes: happy and healthy grown-ups, fun and learning together,happy and healthy little ones, dealing with tantrums and bedtimes, andmaking St Barnabas a great place to live.
The children's centre took up 'happy and healthy little ones'.
Zara Woodcock-McClure, services co-ordinator and head of centre, said,'We set up four separate projects over the year. One was Nice Nosh,which is a weekly group for parents about healthy eating and involvingchildren in food preparation and cooking. They make pizza bases and chopvegetables - it's about risk-taking as well. It was really well receivedby the parents, and now other children's centres like nearby PebbleBrook have started their own, picking up the good practice.'
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