Giving children the best start in life: shining a spotlight on health visiting

These health visiting case studies illustrate the pivotal role health visitors play in ensuring children and families get the support they need in challenging times. 👶👦👧🧒 local.gov.uk/publications/g…

More than 20 years on, “more evidence of positive impact keeps coming” from Sure Start evaluation. Shows yet again the importance of investing and thinking long term if we want to improve outcome for babies, children, young people and families.

So important to ensure that all children are protected from measles, mumps & rubella‼️
iHV pleased to support Barnardo’s with a new film, launched today to raise awareness & promote vaccine uptake
Vicky Jackson👶🏿👶🏼👶🏾Please promote it with families you work with👇

A brilliant woman rightly honoured.

Interested in learning more about qualitative research methods? See below for an online course taught by Professor David Silverman

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Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: Guidelines and Opportunities - Live-streaming

Spring seems very late but I am sure this will do for summer as well!

Now for the #HSUKassessment of direct connectivity offered by Network North. Remember, blue is good, denoting direct trains, yellow less so, requiring a change. NN achieves almost comprehensive direct interconnectivity with a score of 94% – far superior to the #HS2 -inspired NPR.

Every time I post about things like being sent home for the wrong shoes, and behaviour apps where parents are alerted to their kids going to the toilet, and teenagers being sent to isolation for the wrong hair cut, people tell me that this is only the minority of schools and I’m…

If school uniform is to give children something trivial to rebel against, why make the consequences for infractions so very nontrbisl (like sending them home, or putting them in isolation?

If every minute of education matters, why send a teenager to reset for having a nose…

It appears that British schools are spending a lot of time controlling exactly which black shoes teenagers are allowed to wear, and their parents are frustrated about it. This is effectively control of their parents, since they are buying the shoes and many are told at short…

🔊IHR Briefing: Following the release of the interim draft IHRs text, here is a detailed briefing with our legal analysis of the new draft. As this explains, under the new version of the IHR texts almost all of the original proposals about which we and others were so concerned…

First up, direct intercity connectivity. We’ve scored the #HS2 -based Northern Powerhouse Rail on its ability to interlink Northern communities. The current score is 70%, and NPR only succeeds in elevating this score to 76%. Can #HSUKdo any better?

For 6-17yo children in France: prescription rates of all psychotropic medication classes except psychostimulants was higher than expected rates during pandemic years

“The EU will not disappear: it will always be our closest and largest trading partner, so we will always have to negotiate with it. The easiest way of negotiating with the EU is as a leader from within rather than as a supplicant from outside” conservativehome.com/2024/04/24/ter…

Unbelievable to think that we've invested tens of billions in university expansion since the 1980s, and now we're chucking loads of it in a skip. What sort of a country blows through taxpayer money like that? Waste everywhere. 🤷‍♂️😡

Stellar ECDC technical report.

The 'document identifies key issues and recommendations, informed through extensive consultation with experts and ECDC stakeholders, related to the application of [public health and social measures] in community settings.'
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Substandard and falsified medicines in African pharmaceutical markets dingwallenterprises.co.uk/substandard-an…

We’ve plotted up the latest Northern Powerhouse Rail proposals onto #HSUKstandardised mapping. 2024-iteration NPR is still heavily influenced by an utterly vain aspiration, for random sections of the cancelled #HS2 Phase 2b to get built in the North.

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Still wondering why public health & social services needs to be part of pandemic planning & public health response?

Horrifying’ rise in child malnutrition deaths in Victoria during pandemic years

More died from malnutrition over 17m than over the past 19y