First 1001 Days Movement – Response to the Health and Social Care Committee’s report: ‘First 1000 Days: a renewed focus’ 

We welcome the publication of the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s report, First 1000 Days: a renewed focus.   Many of the key recommendations in the report closely reflect the priorities set out in the First 1001 Days Movement’s submission to the inquiry. These include calls for a funded national roll-out of Family Hubs, urgent action to rebuild the…

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Start for Life renamed Healthy Babies programme

New Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies: guidance for local authorities was published by the government on 4th December, confirming a further change in terminology.  The guidance states that Start for Life services are to be renamed Healthy Babies services.  ‘Core services’ are still parent-infant relationships, infant feeding and perinatal mental health.  Speaking to the…

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