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Ministerial Foreword
Children and young people deserve the best possible
start in life, and we have a responsibility to give them
that opportunity. That means providing effective support
for parents and carers, early identification and
intervention when there are problems, and action to help
children and young people make healthy choices for a
lifetime. And crucially, it means integrated working -
working together and sharing expertise to meet the global
needs of individual children and their families.
The fourth edition of
Health for All Children provides a framework for
connecting the range of different policies and spheres of
activity that support children and young people's health
and development in the early years and beyond. It sets out
a clear core programme of child health contacts that every
family can expect, wherever they live in Scotland. But it
also recognises that individual families are different, and
that we must be flexible and innovative if we want to
ensure that all families are able to access and benefit
from the advice, support and services that are available to
them.
I warmly welcome implementation of
Health for All Children in Scotland, which I
believe offers a great opportunity to use the skills and
expertise of a range of professionals to link effective
child health promotion, prevention and care. I am
enormously grateful to the Child Health Support Group
Reference Group members for their valuable input to the
development of this guidance.
Rhona Brankin
Deputy Minister for Health and Community
Care
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