The video from our latest lunchtime webinar is now online. It looked at the recommendations made in the Manifesto for Babies and the progress being made against them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y60eXFC2pUk

Join us for our next lunchtime webinar looking back at our Manifesto for Babies in light of policy developments. 🎤 Hosted by Ben Curran with Tamora Langley, Matthew Hann, Emma Gardner & Eunice Lumsden 🗓️ 1PM on Weds 23 July 👉 Register www.tickettailor.com/events/first1001daysmovement/1786331

It was a real pleasure to work on this amendment and to have drafted the briefing that Baroness Glenys Thornton thanked the Parent-Infant Foundation for. I was pleased with Minister Jacqui Smith's response and am looking forward to the best start in life strategy being published later this year.

We have made a submission to the Government's spending review calling for investment in: 1⃣ Start for Life 2⃣ Breastfeeding 3⃣ Tackling child poverty 4⃣ Health Visitors 5⃣ Paternity Leave Read more 👇 parentinfantfoundation.org.uk/8898-2/

Sharon Hodgson MP really understands this work. It was great to be able to showcase Little Minds in Mind as an excellent example of parent-infant relationship support and to talk through our ambitions for the Start for Life programme.

@pippaheylings.bsky.social asked whether Start for Life services could be extended to every area of England, including to her South Cambridgeshire constituency. The government confirmed that it holds the ambition to ensure that start for life services reach every child.

The #APPGonBabies has been launched. We have the amazing @mayaellismp.bsky.social as Chair and a great officer team with @elsieblundellmp.bsky.social, Patrick Spencer and @freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social I look forward to continuing to work with them & providing their secretariat support.

The latest edition of the First 1001 Days newsletter is out now. You can read it for free here: mailchi.mp/e00cc8e60aa2... This edition includes: - an update on our Start for Life campaign - What Keir Starmer's 'Plan for Change' means for babies - APPG on Babies (Pregnancy to Age 2)