Lambeth (London), Southend (Essex), Nottingham, Blackpool and Bradford have been awarded up to £50m each from the Big Lottery Fund to test what methods are the best for laying foundations in children’s first three years to improve their future health, social and educational outcomes.
The initiatives, which aim to improve the life chances of more than 60,000 babies and children, will be carried out over a ten-year period.
In Lambeth, the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), is to run projects from 26 sites - eight of them children's centres - to improve breastfeeding rates, social, emotional, communication and language development, and reduce domestic violence and childhood and maternal obesity.
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