We are sharing important insights and making policy recommendations from the ‘A Better Start’ programme with policymakers and parliamentarians to inform future manifesto priorities.
This includes:
- Producing policy briefings on reducing inequalities and workforce innovation, which we are sharing with parliamentarians and civil servants.
- Engaging key party stakeholders and special advisors leading on early years health and development policy to discuss manifesto development
- Engaging Government Departments on A Better Start’s innovative approaches through sharing best practice examples and insights, drawing from our research-driven and place-based initiatives
- Responding to Government consultations, including most recently contributing both written and oral evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee’s inquiry into the rising cost of living on women
- Contributing to the 1,001 Days Movement’s manifesto for babies.
The driving force of our work has been the wish to embed the legacy of A Better Start in national policymaking, and to centralise the learnings in future political conversations about improving the lives of babies, young children, and families.