The RCPCH recently hosted a conference, with the Department of Health and the Faculty of Public Health, on children's public health in the foundation years - pregnancy to five years.
It is one of those areas where a whole range of professionals can profitably come together. Psychology helps with attachment theory and the importance of making those first bonds. The neurosciences are becoming increasingly accurate about, for example, the alarming effects in young brains of sustained sensory neglect.
Social science research into birth cohorts can look at social outcomes and this feeds directly into economic wellbeing. And, of course, the growing social work literature on early intervention points towards what works. One telling slide from the conference showed so clearly that the greatest returns
on a unit pound invested were in the earliest years. With time comes a diminution of rewards.
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