The funding will include more than £80 million for Family Hubs, where families can go to access the services they need in one place, implementing recommendations from MP Andrea Leadsom's Early Years Healthy Development Review, which highlights the first 1001 days of a child’s life as crucial for children’s health and wellbeing and called for families to have access to services.
Breastfeeding advice and parent-infant mental health services will also see an annual funding boost and more money will go towards programmes which support parents to build positive relationships with their children, the Treasury said.
The funding for Family Hubs will be given to 75 'upper-tier' local authorities, with further detail on the implementation of this funding set out in due course, according to the Treasury.
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