Mayor of South Yorkshire Oliver Coppard tells The Yorkshire Post his Beds for Babies scheme, which was approved earlier this month, is “just the start” of his plans to address health inequalities in the region.
The £2.2m project will see a moses basket, cot, cotbed or toddler bed provided for free to any child under five years of age who needs one in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley. “We know that one in nine babies that go home from hospital in Sheffield alone go home without a safe place to sleep,” says the Labour mayor, “they end up sleeping in a bath or a box, a drawer, in a bouncy chair, all of which are terrible for babies. We know that we’re solving that problem.
” The scheme is the product of multi-partner collaboration with shareholders including Sheffield Hallam University, Save the Children and Baby Basics UK. So-called “test and learn” pilots will be held in Goldthorpe, Mexborough, Swinton and Gleadless in order to gather evidence in communities and develop best practice for the scheme as more data is gathered and relationships between statutory and non-statutory stakeholders grow.
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