DoH launches updated Child Health Promotion Programme

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The Department of Health has launched an updated “Child health promotion programme (CHPP): Pregnancy and the first five years of life.”

The guide is for primary care trusts (PCTs), local authorities, practice-based commissioners and providers of services in pregnancy and the first years of life, and highlights the key role that the Child Health Promotion Programme (CHPP) plays in improving the health and wellbeing of children.

This publication sets out the recommended standard for the delivery of the CHPP and demonstrates how the programme addresses priorities for the health and wellbeing of children (such as Public Service Agreement (PSA) indicators).

The programme aims to (taken directly from source):
• provide greater emphasis on promoting the health and well-being of children in the early stages – pregnancy and the first five years of life
• support a model of progressive universalism – a core programme for all children, with additional services for children and families with particular needs and risks
• encourage partnership working between different agencies on local service development (e.g. general practice and children's centres)
• focus services on changing public health priorities - obesity, breast feeding, social and emotional development
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