Neil Leitch, director of the Pre-school Learning Alliance's Feeding Young Imaginations campaign, said: "The government has repeatedly stated that they are committed to raising nutritional standards but this is mainly aimed at school-aged children. While our own national early years nutritional training programme has received commendation from the Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), we are yet to see any investment."
Leitch said that when approached for financial support the Department of Health has always claimed to have insufficient funds and referred his organisation to the Big Lottery Fund. However, a spokesman for Big Lottery Fund said that other than small individual grants, there is nothing available for under-fives.
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