Eating well for looked after children and young people

These guidelines set out practical and nutritional guidelines to help all those who care for children in residential homes and foster care understand more about eating well for this group.

These guidelines will enable carers, and those who monitor care settings, to ensure that the young people have a nutritionally balanced, varied and tasty diet. It also provides recommendations for linking food knowledge into care and the skills that young people will need when they become independent.

Produced with funding from the British Heart Foundation, the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency.