Last month, a cross-party group of MPs launched a manifesto aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty in England through a sharp focus on the health and well-being of children under two. The manifesto, The 1,001 Critical Days: the importance of the conception to age two period, uses the evidence of links between a mother's health, the quality of early attachment and infant brain development to call for 'radical change' that would see a national commitment to proven health and education programmes for at-risk parents, from conception to their child's second birthday.
With the stated goal that 'every baby (should) receive sensitive and responsive care from their main caregivers in the first years of life' - an aim that anyone would hope for - this short document is concerned only with effecting change inside families.
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