Supporting a healthy childhood: the need for greater investment in services in England

Supporting a healthy childhood: the need for greater investment in services in England This briefing highlights that investment in services that would give children a good chance of having a healthy childhood has been severely lacking, with cuts commonplace. Today’s unhealthy and adversely affected children risk becoming tomorrow’s unhealthy and adversely affected adults. The briefing has two key recommendations: the development of a cross-government ‘healthy childhood strategy’, and a commitment in the March 2020 budget to reversing cuts to local authority children’s services and public health budgets in England. British Medical Association