Children and young people

Our Starting and Developing Well (S&DW) team sit within the Public Health Directorate. Their aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the region’s children and young people while reducing inequalities by working in partnership with key stakeholders across health, education, social care, and the third sector.

Their objectives include:

• Improving early years outcomes to enable the ‘best start’ in life
• Increasing the number of children and young people with healthy behaviours
• Improving the mental health and wellbeing of the regions children and young people
• Reducing the health inequalities that exist between children and young people

Find out more about our work to complete these objectives here: