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Health - Taking the strain

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 29, 2021
  • | Nursery World
The mental health of new fathers is rarely assessed as part of ante- or postnatal care. With dads’ depression on the rise, this needs to change, finds Meredith Jones Russell

New perinatal mental health resources launched

    News
  • Monday, June 21, 2021
  • | Nursery World
Resources to support the mental health of new fathers; parents who had a baby during the pandemic, and mothers from British South Asian communities, have been launched by the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV).

Parents' mental health hit once more under latest lockdown

    News
  • Tuesday, January 19, 2021
  • | Nursery World
Parental stress, depression, and anxiety have again increased since new national restrictions have been introduced, according to the latest report from the Oxford University led Covid-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics (Co-SPACE) study.

Vulnerable babies ‘invisible’ in the pandemic

    News
  • Monday, December 21, 2020
  • | Nursery World
Soaring increases in child neglect, domestic violence and perinatal mental illness have been reported by health visitors during the pandemic, a report from the Institute of Health Visiting finds.

Childhood obesity reaches 'record high'

    News
  • Thursday, November 5, 2020
  • | Nursery World
Children living in deprived areas are more than twice as likely to be obese than those living in more affluent areas, findings from the Government’s National Child Measurement Programme for England reveal.

Call to increase value of Healthy Start Vouchers

    News
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2020
  • | Nursery World
More than 50 public health experts have signed a letter to the Chancellor and health secretary, calling for an increase in the value of the Healthy Start vouchers for low-income families.

Help shape services for babies and new parents: consultation launched

    News
  • Friday, October 9, 2020
  • | Nursery World
New parents, health service professionals, charities and volunteer groups have until 16 October to respond to an online questionnaire that will help shape the outcome of the review into early years healthy development, led by Government advisor Andrea Leadsom MP.

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