Healthy eating and physical activity
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important to the development of your child. There is a wealth of guidance available to support families in their choices around health and wellbeing
Keeping your child healthy
The Change4Life programme provides guidance on healthy living for children and their families. This includes information on:
- Food facts
- Recipes
- Activities
- Your child's weight
Easy Recipes App and Other Health Apps
Support and Social Care Services
Healthy Eating
With so much information about food, good and bad, available to us through social media and the internet these days, it’s hard to know what to eat and why.
Understanding how certain foods affect your body and mind is important and can help choices about what to have for dinner, or whether to have a snack, much easier.
Use the links below to find a range of information about healthy eating, useful weight loss tools and evidence based advice. You may also be referred by your GP or health professional to specific weight loss schemes.
Physical Activity
There are a range of physical activities available in Swindon to encourage a healthy lifestyle for children. Activities are available to support with every level of ability.
Support for Young People
The Dock Swindon is a website designed for young people to find out about services that are here to help them in Swindon. This includes information on health and relationships.
U-Turn is a specialist service that provides support for young people and their families with alcohol or drug related problems.
Information and advice on drug and alcohol abuse, and sexual health