Early Intervention

Parenting UK’s March News Bulletin pointed out that one of the key recommendations of Graham Allen’s review on early intervention was a national parenting campaign which would “ensure that the public, parents, health professionals and, especially, newly pregnant women are aware of the importance of developing social and emotional capability in the first years of life, and understand the best ways of encouraging good later outcomes for their children.”

All entirely laudable but some of us might think this laudable intention would be better expressed if, after the phrase newly pregnant women, the phrase and their partners was inserted.