The MP and Leader of the House of Commons told the joint APPG for Children and Conception to Age 2, chaired by MP Tim Loughton, that she would report fully on the inter-ministerial group’s findings and recommendations at the next meeting in June.
At the meeting on Monday (29 April) she gave an interim update as chair of the cross-Government group set up last July to look at family support in the first 1001 days, from conception to age two.
The inter-ministerial group aims to identify gaps in available provision and make recommendations on how co-ordination across departments can be improved and explore what more the Government can do to ensure they act early in a child’s life.
It will then ask the Treasury for increased funding to support early help in the early years in the spending review, which takes place in the autumn.
Ms Leadsom was asked by the Prime Minister last summer to chair the cross-Government inter-ministerial group on family support from conception to age two.
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