The call comes as Sir Michael Marmot, director of the Institute for Health Equity at UCL, unveiled guidance for children’s centres and local authorities to help improve the development of children by focusing more on parenting and improving parents’ lives.
In February, the institute’s annual indicators for health inequalities showed large disparities in children’s development across England, with an average of just 59 per cent reaching a good level of development by five.
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists chief executive Kamini Gadhok, a member of the institute’s advisory board for the guidance, said that the impact of parents’ relationships with their child and parental circumstances are crucial to child development.
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