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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