Welcome to Healthy Steps in ECEC
Healthy Steps in ECEC is a web-based tool to designed to help centre-based and Family Day Care Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services create healthy environments for children. Healthy Steps in ECEC will be used to help you put in place the Tiny Bites program.
Why use Healthy Steps in ECEC?
- A simple way to ensure that your service is using evidence-based approaches to creating a
healthy environment that promotes healthy eating and physical activity for children - Assess your practice using comprehensive self-assessments that compliment health
guidelines and recommendations - Generate action plans that support the service’s Quality Improvement Plan
- Access to a wide range of supporting resources for both educators and families
- Supports the National Quality Standards (NQS) and Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF).
Our Focus Areas
Explore how Healthy Steps in ECEC can assist your service to reflect on current practice and support improvement in the following areas:
Healthy Eating
Infant Feeding
Physical Activity
Healthy eating
Ensure your service is achieving best practice in healthy eating for children, including areas such as:
- menus and lunchboxes align with nutrition standards and guidelines
- opportunities for healthy eating learning experiences for children
- healthy eating policy
- staff training in healthy eating curriculum and practices
- educator feeding practices
- family engagement around healthy eating activities and education
Components of Healthy Steps in ECEC
Self-Assessments
Completing the self-assessment quizzes enables your service to check how you are going with meeting a range of evidence-based healthy eating, infant feeding and physical activity policies and practices. The quizzes provide you with instant feedback, showing you what policies and practices your service is doing well in, and other where improvements can be made.
Resources
Healthy Steps in ECEC provides a library of resources to help your service reach their goals.
Ready to go?
To get started, click on the self-assessment button below to begin your self-assessment quizzes. You can come back and re-complete the self-assessment quizzes, and access the library of resources as many times as you like!
