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Supporting Parents and Infants Through the Healthy Child Programme

This is a comprehensive review of the latest evidence of relevance to the Healthy Child Programme.

Established in 2009, the Healthy Child Programme provides public health services to all families with a child between conception and age five in England. It is based on the best available evidence summarised in the fourth edition of Health for All Children and supplemented with guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

As a universal prevention and early intervention programme, it forms an integral part of Public Health England's priority to ensure:

The programme ensures that all children are offered five mandated health reviews by the health visiting service before turning five.

The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) report refreshes the 2009 evidence by consolidating key messages from two sources:

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