Best Start with HENRY
With a specific focus on healthy eating and healthy weight the Best Start with HENRY service offers:
- Targeted Healthy Families programmes for families of children who have been identified as requiring additional support in this area
- A series of standalone universal healthy eating workshops for families on starting solids, and healthy eating in the early years
- A broad training programme for all education, health professionals and community and voluntary organisations who work with families of children aged 0-5, including raising the issue of weight;
- Supporting the already established Eat Better Start Better programme in early years settings, run by Hackney Learning Trust;
- Promotion and delivery of Healthy Start
- General health promotion of healthy, active lifestyles including healthy eating and early nutrition across services, and to health and education professionals who work with 0-5 year olds within the City and Hackney.
For up-to-date timetables, please visit our website.
Eligibility
Inclusion
Children aged under 5 years who live or are registered with a GP in the City and Hackney AND one of the following:
- Parents/carers who are concerned about their child’s weight, eating habits or physical activity levels or
- Professionals working with under 5 year olds and their families who are concerned about a child’s weight or
- A child over two years of age with a BMI >91st centile
- A child whose weight is on or above the 99.6th centile
- A child whose weight has gone up by more than two centile lines
Exclusion
- Fussy eating/food neophobia where the child is not growing well
- Nutritional deficiencies e.g. iron deficiency
- Patients on oral nutritional supplements
- Constipation and diarrhoea
- Non oral feeding
- Multiple allergies. Children would require referral to secondary care Homerton allergy service
- Children with long-term conditions including diabetes or morbidities
How to refer
Who can refer: GP, Nurse, Other
Email
Email referral form (see form in downloads). Referrals will be accepted from: Health professionals, including GPs, school nurses, pharmacists and dieticians Professionals working with children, young people and families Tier 3 child weight management services Adults weight management and exercise on referral service Self-referrals from eligible families