The Children's National Service Framework sets standards for children's health and social services, and explains the relationship between those services and children's education
The Healthy Child Programme is a high quality early intervention, clinical and prevention public health programme, which begins in pregnancy and extends through childhood into the end of the teenage years. The Healthy Child Programme now contains three core documents:
Women who are breastfeeding should continue while receiving antiviral treatment or prophylaxis as they are not contraindicated in breastfeeding.
This guidance is a revised version of the existing guidance, Promoting the Health of Looked After Children, which was published by the Department of Health in 2002. The revised guidance will be statutory on PCTs and on Strategic Health Authorities as well as local authorities.
On Wednesday 6th May, the Government released a detailed response to Lord Laming's report, The protection of children in England: A progress report. The response sets out the specific actions that the Government will take, in partnership with local agencies and key stakeholders, to address each of Lord Laming’s recommendations
The Every Child Matters website has downloadable booklets for parents on how to prevent accidents in the home.
The Government's child health strategy was produced jointly by the Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Joint statement by the Department of Health, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and Skills for Health on the measures necessary to put into practice the European Working Time Directive.
A joint statement from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives
