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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes.
2. Promote healthy eating
   • Engage children in experiences, conversations and routines that promote relaxed and enjoyable mealtimes and promote healthy lifestyles and good nutrition
   • Model, reinforce and implement healthy eating and nutrition practices with children during mealtimes
   • Support and guide children to eat healthy food
   • Check that children have ready access to water and are offered healthy food and drinks regularly throughout the day
   • Assist in ensuring that furniture and utensils are suitable to encourage children to be positively involved in and enjoy mealtimes
3. Plan food and drinks that are nutritious and appropriate for each child
   • Within scope of own work, ensure children are provided with food and drink consistent with the guidelines for healthy eating
   • Assist in ensuring children’s individual needs are consistent with advice provided by families about their child’s dietary requirements, likes, dislikes and any cultural or other requirements families have regarding their child’s nutrition
   • Read and interpret food labels and other information about food contents
   • Assist in providing education and support to families around healthy eating
   • Assist to develop and display a cycle of written menus detailing the food that is provided to children
4. Maintain food safety while carrying out food-handling activities
   • Assist in developing and maintaining food safety procedures according to relevant guidelines
   • Within scope of own work role, carry out food-handling, preparation and storage according to service policies and procedures and regulatory requirements.
   • Follow food safety procedures when preparing food

Range Statement

Specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included. Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.
Guidelines for healthy eating must include:	Australian Dietary Guidelines and Infant Feeding Guidelines.

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