Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including provision for children’s health services in the NHS long term workforce plan.

The Government will ensure that every child has the best start in life and that we create the healthiest generation of children ever. The child health workforce, including paediatricians, health visitors, and school nurses, is central to how we will achieve this.

We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure patients, their carers, and their families are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it. We have also committed to the Long Term Workforce Plan, which will deliver the reform needed.