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How the Healthy Early Years London programme is benefiting children and staff in the capital. Meredith Jones Russell reports

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As part of the Mayor of London’s Health Inequalities Strategy, the Healthy Early Years London (HEYL) programme targets the health, nutrition and well-being of the capital’s youngest residents.

London’s children face stark disparities in health depending on income and area of residence, with the development of five-year-olds on free school meals almost three months behind that of their peers. In Tower Hamlets, babies are more than two and a half times more likely to be born at a low birth weight than those in the wealthier area of Richmond upon Thames.

All 32 London boroughs have committed local resources to the programme, making it available to the 13,000 settings across the city.

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