Child well-being tops public health agenda

  BMA Cymru Wales is to set up a cross-party group on public health, with children's health and well-being at the top of its agenda. The association held a seminar entitled Growing up in Wales 2016 on 23 March to kick start debate on the topic of ensuring a healthy future for the nation's children. BMA welsh council chair Phil Banfield chaired the seminar held at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre and said it was important to get it right for children at the start of their lives. He told attendees: 'The product of today is to take the presentation, the discussion and the product of your cards to start compiling a report about the situation of children's health and well-being in Wales. 'After the Assembly elections, it is our intention to convene a cross-party public health health group, of which looking at children's issues will be one of the first things that we would wish to do. 'It is important to get it right from the start. If we don't get it right, either before birth or just after birth, then we've set ourselves on the wrong course. It is the wrong course that affects health in Wales for a long time.'   Scandanavian system BMA president Sir Al Aynsley-Green and former Children's Commissioner for England began the seminar with a presentation on childcare in Finland, where children start school at seven and play workers are often qualified at Masters level. He asked the seminar: 'How do we get political traction? How do we get these guys, who, as Jeremy Pa...
Source: BMA News - Category: UK Health Source Type: news