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How local authorities should implement Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies services.
Parenting A parenting evidence-based initiative (EBI) is a structured…
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Summary About this guidance This statutory guidance from the Department…
The areas of public health where health visiting and school nursing teams in England can have the greatest impact.
Background and purpose The high-impact areas are nationally recognised…
1. The transition to parenthood Overview of high-impact area 1: ages 0 to…
1. Physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing Overview of…
High-impact areas for health visiting (ages 0 to 5) 1. Adamsons K.…
The principles underlying the programme and the expectations that public health nursing teams are expected to meet when delivering services in England.
Guidance for local authorities that will receive funding to deliver the holiday activities and food programme.
How commissioners should establish, monitor and assure the quality of public health nursing services delivered under the healthy child programme in England.
Information local authorities should include in their agreements with early years providers to deliver free entitlements.
Additional funding for local authorities delivering the government’s free early years entitlements programme.
Guidance for schools and academy trusts on how to set up and deliver school-age childcare provision and their role in supporting families to access provision during term times and holidays.
Guidance for local authorities on the local authority capacity support funding for school-age childcare.
How local authorities and early years settings should provide the entitlement for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds.
Local authority allocations for the holiday activities and food programme, and local authority support for school-age childcare.
A toolkit to support commissioning of supervised toothbrushing programmes in early years settings and schools.
The funding available to local authorities since September 2024 to expand wraparound care, and their role in delivering it.
Guidance for providers of healthy child programme services on the completion of data tables and fields in the Community Services Data Set (CSDS).
A template that childminder agencies and local authorities can use to create an agreement around information sharing and collaborative working.
Information for NHS and public health professionals focusing on the life course approach which aims to give people fairer life chances.
Information on indicators of local authority early education services, and ways to compare an individual local authority to other local authorities.
Information on the 14 local authorities who have been selected as trailblazers for the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme.
Technical information for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the early education and childcare entitlements expansions.
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