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date	14/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the implementation of the Healthy Child Programme; and what recent meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have had to discuss that Programme.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	46403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>The responsibility for leadership of the Healthy Child Programme is with Public Health England (PHE).</p><p>The Healthy Child Programme is the Government’s framework that underpins PHE’s priority to give every child the best start in life. The Best Start in Life Board meets bimonthly, jointly chaired by PHE and a local authority Chief Executive. The Board has cross-government representation from the Department of Health, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, and Department for Communities and Local Government.</p><p>The Department has commissioned PHE to undertake a review of the delivery of the universal elements of 0-5 services, mandated to local authorities, and will report later this year.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 12/10/2016 09:24:53 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

454861

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on developing a national measure of child development at age two to two-and-a-half as part of the public health framework; and when he expects that measure to be introduced.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	28206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department is leading work to develop an indicator of child development at age 2-2½ to be included in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) from 2017. The population measure will give a national picture of child development at age 2 and will also help local areas to assess the impact of services for 0-2 year olds and inform local commissioning.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2015, the Department has asked all health visiting teams in England to use the evidence based Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3) as part of children’s health and development reviews at age 2-2½ to generate data for the indicator. The Department has worked with Health Education England to develop e-learning materials to support health professionals using ASQ-3 as part of the two year review.</p><p> </p><p>From October 2015, health visiting providers were asked to report ASQ-3 scores to the Children and Young People’s Health Services dataset, which is being developed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The dataset is expected to publish its first report in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England will draw on ASQ-3 data from the children’s dataset to report the PHOF outcome measure of child development at age 2-2½, reporting on a yearly basis the percentage of children with a positive outcome across all five domains of development in ASQ-3 at age 2-2½. The first reporting of the outcome measure is planned for inclusion in the PHOF in spring 2017.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 29/02/2016 14:02:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

387047

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that all families benefit from targeted support under the Healthy Child Programme.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	5065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Healthy Child Programme is a progressive universal service which offers every child a schedule of health and development reviews, screening tests, immunisations, health promotion guidance and support for parents tailored to their needs. For children and families with greater needs and risks, a range of additional preventive and early intervention services are offered, including services promoting child development and emotional and psychological support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To ensure the programme remains up to date with the latest evidence, a review of the evidence base for the Healthy Child Programme was undertaken by Public Health England and published in March 2015. The findings of the review will ensure that the Healthy Child Programme is underpinned by robust, up-to-date evidence of what works.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The review report is available on the gov.uk website at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-rapid-review-to-update-evidence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-rapid-review-to-update-evidence</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To support the continued provision of the Healthy Child Programme following transfer of responsibility for planning and commissioning of public health services for children up to age five from NHS England to local authorities on 1 October 2015, we are mandating five universal health visitor reviews:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- the antenatal health promoting visit;</p><p> </p><p>- the new baby review;</p><p> </p><p>- the 6-8 week assessment (the health visitor or Family Nurse led check);</p><p> </p><p>- the one year assessment; and</p><p> </p><p>- the 2-2½ year review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that these are the key times to ensure that parents are supported to give their baby the best start in life, and to identify early those families who need extra help. This will help ensure all children under five and their parents get the support they need, whilst also providing an opportunity to identify those families where extra support may be needed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 06/07/2015 16:20:56 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead