Dietitians Australia is urging all candidates contesting the South Australian election to pledge their commitment to better equipping the State's Early Childhood Education and Care sector with the tools, knowledge and support needed to guarantee safe and nutritious food for children in care.

Dietitians Australia calls on the government to recognise dietitians and nutrition support as a cornerstone of the design and delivery of the Thriving Kids initiative. In this submission, Dietitians Australia make a suite of recommendations to ensure autistic children and children with developmental delays have early and ongoing access to essential nutrition support.

Released June 2025 - In this submission, Dietitians Australia advocates for the expansion of the South Australian school breakfast program and the establishment of a school lunch program. We also call for the embedding of nutrition into public health and education strategies.

With almost half of Australian children attending early childcare before the age of five, Dietitians Australia is today calling for a national guarantee they will be provided with safe and nutritious mealtimes while in care.

Dietitians Australia is urging the Federal Government to urgently overhaul the food and nutrition standards and supporting guidance within the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care, to give Australian families peace of mind their children are not at risk of nutrition neglect when attending centres.

Dietitians Australia has long advocated for the voluntary industry code governing the marketing and advertising of infant formula (The MAIF Agreement) to be replaced with a legislated mandatory code.

Dietitians Australia and Nutrition Australia ACT are calling for the incoming Territory Government to prioritise the nutrition future of the Territory’s children by boosting nutrition support services available to early childhood education and care services.

Dietitians Australia, in partnership with Nutrition Australia ACT, is calling on the incoming ACT Government to prioritise the nutrition future of the Territory’s children by boosting nutrition support services available to early childhood education and care services.

Call to Action launched at Parliamentary Friends of Nutrition event, 24 June 2024

Dietitians Australia is calling on the Government to focus on raising the nutrition standards set for Australian Early Childhood Centres, as a priority action to improve the nutrition quality of food consumed by children.