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<p>The Healthy Child Programme is the key evidence based, universal public health
service for improving the health and wellbeing of children, through health and development
reviews, health promotion, parenting support, screening and immunisation programmes.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The programme has a strong evidence base, which is set out
in Health for All Children (Hall and Elliman, 2006). To ensure the programme continues
to promote best practice, Public Health England are leading a rapid review of the
evidence base for the Healthy Child Programme for 0 to 5 year olds, which will be
published later this year.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Healthy
Start is a means-tested, United Kingdom-wide government scheme that offers a nutritional
safety net for pregnant women and children under four in low income families by providing
them with weekly vouchers to put towards the cost of milk, formula milk, fruit and
vegetables, and free vitamin supplements. The delivery costs for this year for Healthy
Start throughout the UK (vouchers, vitamins and administration) is expected to be
around £85 million, with 90% of vouchers redeemed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The
Department commissioned a formal evaluation of the Healthy Start scheme, published
in March 2013. This considered the experiences of Scheme users and the effectiveness
of the Scheme at delivering against its stated purpose. The results of this evaluation
can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/sps/migrated/documents/finalreport2.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/sps/migrated/documents/finalreport2.pdf</a></p><p>
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