Thursday 25 July 2019

Parents 'missing out on new baby health visits'

Parents 'missing out on new baby health visits' About one in four new parents in England is not seeing a health visitor when their baby turns one, increasing the risk of mental health problems going unnoticed, the NSPCC says.

The government has promised five home visits for every family - from pregnancy until the age of two.

But cuts to local authority budgets and fewer health visitors were having an impact, the charity said. BBC News

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