Early Years Ministerial Group on Family Support

(asked on 16th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the status is of the cross-Government working group on family support from conception to age two years old; and when the report of that working group will be published.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st October 2019

The Inter-Ministerial Group on Early Years Family Support has concluded its work. The Government’s Prevention Green Paper ‘Advancing our health in the 2020s’ reflects the conclusions of the Group, that many long-term outcomes are improved by positive relationships between parents and infants from pregnancy onwards.

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