Charities are calling on the government to increase the value of the Healthy Start allowance from £8.50 to £10 a week for infants
Babies from vulnerable families are at risk of malnutrition with the soaring cost of infant formula leading to unsafe feeding practices, charities have warned.
Currently, Healthy Start vouchers provide women in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who are pregnant or have young children with £8.50 a week to buy nutritious food.mean the vouchers are no longer enough to pay for the amount of infant formula needed to safely feed a baby in the first six months of their life, BPAS said.
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