Nursery World - Guidance for multi-agency working

New guidance to support local authorities in commissioning
children's public health services from next year identifies ways in
which health visitors and early years providers can work together to
achieve effective outcomes.

The Department of Health (DoH) guidance comes ahead of the transfer of responsibility for commissioning children's health services, including health visitors, from NHS England to local authorities from October 2015, under the Social Care Act 2012.

The DoH guidance is intended for use by commissioners, local authorities, early years providers and practitioners, as well as health visitors.

It has been developed to support delivery of public health commissioning for children from birth to five, known as the '0-5 Agenda', and the Government's Healthy Child Programme.

The Healthy Child Programme is a universal prevention and early intervention programme comprising of child health promotion, screening, immunisation, child development reviews and health-led parenting support.

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