Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the innovative health visiting workforce pilots announced in the Spending Review 2021 will run for long enough to allow approaches to be applied across families’ five health visitor contacts and to evaluate the impact of workforce models on children’s wellbeing and outcomes.

The workforce trials will run for two years. We will design a robust approach to evaluate the impact of this approach against key metrics, including the impact on the experience and wellbeing of families and babies. A range of areas will be selected to improve our understanding of what approaches work in different settings.