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Study to examine health visitors' role in infant social development

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The vital role played by health visitors in promoting infant wellbeing and social development is to be the subject of a major new study backed by The Princess of Wales.
Health visitors in two areas will use a new observation tool to assess infants' emotional development. Picture: highwaystarz/Adobe Stock
Health visitors in two areas will use a new observation tool to assess infants' emotional development. Picture: highwaystarz/Adobe Stock

The study will see two field trials run across two sites to assess the acceptability and feasibility of implementing a new tool to support the promotion of infant wellbeing and social development, and by enhancing health visitors’ ability to identify infants at risk.

The study will be funded through a grant from the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, whose patron is the Princess of Wales, and will be run in partnership with the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) and led by Professor Jane Barlow from the University of Oxford.

The Centre for Early Childhood seeks to raise awareness of why early childhood matters and to translate this evidence from neuroscience into practice.

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