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<p>Health visiting services have been developed to improve health outcomes for children
and families and reduce inequalities. Since October 2015 local authorities have been
responsible for the commissioning of these services for zero to five year olds and,
as such, they determine the required numbers of health visitors to meet local needs.</p><p>
</p><p>Over 800 new training places were made available in 2016/17 to continue to
develop the health visitor workforce.</p><p> </p><p>We no longer hold data centrally
on the number of health visitor posts there are in England, or the number of vacancies.</p>
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