Academics and child experts to ask Barnardos to drop Danone as sponsor of 'Big Toddle'

Barnardos will be asked to drop Danone as sponsor of its 'Big Toddle' by a group of academics and child experts, who claim the involvement of a breast-milk substitute manufacturer breaches the WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

The successful Big Toddle for Barnardos is a half-mile sponsored walk for children under five, with the funds raised ploughed back into the charity's Early Years work.