Early Years Series: Report 2 Breaking down the barriers to

Early Years Series: Report 2 Breaking down the barriers to breastfeeding to support healthy weight in childhood Technical Appendix February 2024 TECHNICAL APPENDIX: BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO BREASTFEEDING TO SUPPORT HEALTHY WEIGHT IN CHILDREHOOD Overview This technical appendix provides details and methods of the research compiled for the report ‘Breaking down the barriers to breastfeeding to. [...] The specific aim of the implementation evaluation was to understand the delivery of the project in terms of whether it conformed to the service design, and this was done through examining the intervention’s performance in four key areas; referrals, recruitment, implementation, and reach. [...] Reach considered 3 TECHNICAL APPENDIX: BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS TO BREASTFEEDING TO SUPPORT HEALTHY WEIGHT IN CHILDREHOOD the ethnic backgrounds of participants, and compared this to population level information to understand whether the intervention was reaching a representative sample of the population. [...] The graph highlights the big difference between the weekly Healthy Start Allowance and the cost of a tub of formula, and also highlights the increase in formula prices that have been seen since March 2021. [...] The Nuffield Foundation is the founder and co-funder of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory.