A Government-funded review, which was commissioned last year in the wake of the Baby P scandal, highlights that investment by the NHS in services for children and young people is at its very lowest in the early years.
The review shows that services for children and young people in the NHS are given a very low priority. It reveals that up to 50 per cent of GPs in many parts of the country have had no paediatric or child health training and that child mortality rates have fallen less quickly in the UK than in other EU countries. The UK also has some of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and low birthweight babies in Europe.
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