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Families for Life: Healthy Lifestyle Service

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June 2020: Covid-19 update

Family Kitchen is being run via zoom as a cook-along. Families for Life healthy lifestyle offers one-off telephone sessions.

Families for Life provides healthy lifestyle programmes and sessions to families in Islington:

  • Family Kitchen is a four-week cooking course with healthy messages. Parent and children attend sessions together.
  • Families for Life sessions cover topics such as fussy eating, fun ways to stay active, breakfast ideas.
  • Both programmes are designed to help families with children aged two to 11 to make healthy lifestyle choices to ‘feel good and live well’.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusions

Families with children aged two to 11 (at school or registered with a GP in Islington), who 

  • would like support to develop a healthy lifestyle
  • have children who are fussy eaters
  • have a concern about weight.

How to refer

The following clinicians can refer to this service: GPs, Nurses

EMIS form

Referral methods: Email

A referral form can be found in ISL EMIS under

ISL global documents > Social Services  > Families for Life Referral Form

e: Marjon.willers@nhs.net

t: 020 7527 5866

Self-referral

Families can self-refer by phone, email or by completing on-line form

t: 020 7527 2304

e: familiesforlife@islington.gov.uk

w: https://directory.islington.gov.uk/kb5/islington/directory/service.page?id=ZMmPrtiVHmc

External Links

Families for Life

w: http://directory.islington.gov.uk

Service Feedback

Email Address

e: familiesforlife@islington.gov.uk

Phone Number

t: 020 7527 2304

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Last updated: Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Review date: Thursday, 07 July 2022

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