The Early Years Healthy Development Review, led by Andrea Leadsom MP and overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care, is looking into the health inequalities among babies and infants, with a particular focus on improving outcomes for disadvantaged children.
The review, launched in the summer by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has spent the autumn gathering evidence from academics, frontline health and early years practitioners, and parents about barriers to child development from conception to two years old.
It is the second time in the space of three years that a Conservative Prime Minister has turned to Leadsom, the Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire, to lead a review into the health and care support children and parents receive in the in the crucial first 1,001 days of life. In 2018, she was commissioned by former Prime Minister Theresa May to convene an inter-ministerial group (IMG) on early years support, involving input from eight government departments.
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