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Best Start in Life
Our Best Start In Life offer provides support to families from pregnancy and through your child's earliest years. This is a critical time in your child’s development and a time of significant change within a family's life. There is a wide range of universal, targeted and specialist services to support you and your child.
Our Best Start in Life Strategy 2026-2029 outlines our ambitions and priorities to work together to support Lambeth families and give children the best possible start in life.
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Midwifery and care during your pregnancy
NHS care during your pregnancy from Guys and St Thomas hospital, when you’re giving birth and after your baby is born if you live in postcodes SE24, SE27 and SW12.
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Midwifery and care during pregnancy
NHS care during your pregnancy from Kings College Hospital, when you’re giving birth and after your baby is born if you live in postcodes SW2, SW4, SW8, SW9, SW16, SE1, SE5, SE11, SE19, SE21, SE24 and SE27.
Infant-feeding advice and specialist breastfeeding support
Breastfeeding support groups in Lambeth
Birth registration
How to register your baby’s birth
Safeguarding
Lambeth Safeguarding Children Partnership
Services relating to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
Lambeth’s SEND Local Offer of services for 0-25 year olds
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Parenting support
The Parenting Support Service offers a range of group-based parenting courses for families
Healthy start scheme
Get help to buy food and milk if you are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4
Parent infant relationship support
Ways you can support babies and young children with their feelings
Speech and language therapy
Specialist advice, assessment and help for children and young people
Parental mental health support
Support for mums and families during pregnancy and after birth
Better Start Children's Centres
Activities, help and support for children and their families
Health visiting
Community health visiting services for families who have children under the age of five years old