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The Infant & Toddler Forum brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts and practitioners from paediatrics, neonatology, health visiting, dietetics, and child psychology, to share new ideas and to debate the latest thinking in infant and toddler nutrition.
Our aim is to identify gaps in current knowledge and areas where information is lacking. We then seek to fill these gaps by providing reliable, evidence-based nutritional information and practical educational tools that are relevant to HCPs` day-to-day practice.
Where appropriate, we also engage with professional bodies, policy makers and industry to bring about positive changes to nutritional policy and practice.
The Forum focuses primarily on nutrition from birth to three years of age. We also consider important issues relating to the healthy infant and toddler including those with particular nutritional needs, such as the premature infant or the atopic child. Our discussion extends beyond nutritional science, to social and practical issues involved in achieving optimal diet and feeding practices.
Our achievements include the publication of fifteen Factsheets, an ongoing nationwide programme of Study Days, a number of published reports and articles and a growing national profile in debate on infant and toddler nutrition and health.