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<p>Health visitors as leaders of the Healthy Child Programme work closely with children
and families and are well placed to address issues relating to mental and physical
health. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Health visiting services remained in contact
with families either through face to face visits (with personal protective equipment)
where clinically indicated, or virtually. Priority contacts included vulnerable families,
providing support to perinatal mental health and physical health and wellbeing of
mother and baby. Other key priority contacts were the antenatal and new baby scheduled
contacts.</p><p>Public Health England worked with NHS England on guidance to reinstate
the six to eight weeks contact and prioritised caseload contacts at the earliest opportunity.
This can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/covid-19-prioritisation-within-community-health-services-with-annex_19-march-2020/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/covid-19-prioritisation-within-community-health-services-with-annex_19-march-2020/</a></p><p>Support
for parents is also available through Start4Life and the Information Service for Parents
at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhs.uk%2Fstart4life%2Fpregnancy%2F&data=02%7C01%7CParliamentary%40phe.gov.uk%7C3329749869a54f69830108d85e439213%7Cee4e14994a354b2ead475f3cf9de8666%7C0%7C0%7C637362991584174202&sdata=exoSFJCADhBUWdalRIj%2FL3b8XAV9fFr3%2BOnUNVdLmSs%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/start4life/pregnancy/</a></p><p>Support for professionals
can be found through the Early Years High Impact Areas at the following link:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commissioning-of-public-health-services-for-children"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commissioning-of-public-health-services-for-children</a></p><p>
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