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Disability Access to Service would be possible through reasonable adjustments being made; all parents are included in universal offer. Health Visitors to identify parents with disabilities and ensure that adjustments are made to enable parents to access all necessary services. Gain information on public’s views on the best ways of working with parents and babies with disabilities. Public Health Public Consultation July/August 2017. There will be a cost for the consultation process but this is standard procedure, results will be analysed by Public Health This will enable the feeding needs of parents and babies with disabilities to be identified earlier and will have more support through the mandated checks. Health Visiting Service. Outcomes will be part of quality standards and monitored by performance management from January 1st 2017. Will be part of existing contract Data collection re: numbers of disabled parents/children up taking support and breastfeeding Because of universal provision, higher numbers of disabled parents and children would be accessing support. Monitoring of prevalence would show if this this is resulting in increased rates Health Visiting Service will need to put in place systems for collecting this data as it won’t be on eStart January 1st 2017
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