HEALTH VISITORS

24th January 2018

Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of health visitors.

Jackie Doyle-Price, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities: Health visiting services have been developed to improve health outcomes for children and families and reduce inequalities. Since October 2015 local authorities have been responsible for the commissioning of these services for zero to five year olds and, as such, they determine the required numbers of health visitors to meet local needs.

Over 800 new training places were made available in 2016/17 to continue to develop the health visitor workforce.

We no longer hold data centrally on the number of health visitor posts there are in England, or the number of vacancies.

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