Reports England’s expansion of Healthy Babies support for infant feeding, parent mental health and bonding.
Scheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies The government is rolling out a Healthy Babies programme to every local authority in England, as part of its efforts to expand a Sure Start-type system of help for deprived children and families. It aims to support parents with infant feeding, their mental health and building strong bonds with their babies, alongside health visits, midwifery care and wider services. Continue …
Explores Georgie Dent’s case for relief from the cost, work and school-hour pressures squeezing working parents.
Georgie Dent’s National Press Club address recently went viral after she laid bare the compounding pressures on modern families. Between skyrocketing cost of living, rigid workplace expectations, and an eye-watering gap between school days and work hours, is the current system setting parents up to fail? Reged Ahmad speaks with Georgie Dent , the CEO of advocacy group The Parenthood, to unpack why raising children has become an impossible mathematical equation and how policy reform can fix it R…