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The Health Visiting Service will provide ethnicity data. 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: racial group of parents and infants up taking support and breastfeeding Because of universal provision, higher numbers of users from different racial groups 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 Religion or belief Attitudes to feeding may be influenced by religion and belief. Gain further intelligence and ensure that is no barrier to access on the grounds of religion or beliefs. This may be an issue around the involvement of male partners of other users Ensure that the public consultation includes implications about accessibility related to religion or belief. 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
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