About us

We aim to:

Improve children’s diet and nutrition

Good nutrition during pregnancy and the first three years of life is vitally important for a child’s growth, development and long-term health. A healthy diet in pregnancy, breastfeeding and in childhood are all key to promoting healthy development and protecting against illness in later life.

Improve children’s social and emotional development

Social and emotional skills include the ability to experience, express and manage emotions, establish positive and rewarding relationships, and cope with difficult experiences. These life skills are essential to children’s later learning, health, behaviour, success in employment and life satisfaction.

Improve children’s speech, language and communication

Speech, language and communication skills are important for many aspects of life, including healthy behaviour and emotional development, developing relationships and doing well at school and work. Communication skills help children engage with the world around them and share their feelings.

Create system change

Ultimately we strive to create changes in systems, practice and behaviour that increase the focus on the first 1001 days and invest in preventative and early intervention approaches that have been demonstrated to have impact.

We aim to:

Improve children’s diet and nutrition

Good nutrition during pregnancy and the first three years of life is vitally important for a child’s growth, development and long-term health. A healthy diet in pregnancy, breastfeeding and in childhood are all key to promoting healthy development and protecting against illness in later life.

Improve children’s social and emotional development

Social and emotional skills include the ability to experience, express and manage emotions, establish positive and rewarding relationships, and cope with difficult experiences. These life skills are essential to children’s later learning, health, behaviour, success in employment and life satisfaction.

Improve children’s speech, language and communication

Speech, language and communication skills are important for many aspects of life, including healthy behaviour and emotional development, developing relationships and doing well at school and work. Communication skills help children engage with the world around them and share their feelings.

Create system change

Ultimately we strive to create changes in systems, practice and behaviour that increase the focus on the first 1001 days of life and invest in preventative and early intervention approaches that have been demonstrated to have impact.

Our expertise

The Better Start Bradford team is made up of experts in early years, midwifery, health visiting, public health and community engagement, supported by a bedrock of brilliant finance, project management, communications, administration and workforce development staff.

Partnership is at the heart of everything we do

We work alongside a host of locally-based organisations who expertly manage and deliver our projects, parent groups who run activities, Community Champions and other volunteers who give their time to help local families, and many other individuals and organisations.

Together we make up the extended Better Start Bradford family.