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Publication - Strategy/plan

Breastfeeding and infant feeding: strategic framework 2025-2030

Published
9 June 2025
Directorate
Children and Families Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Equality and rights, Health and social care, +1 more … Programme for Government
ISBN
9781836915522

Sets out national actions on how we will support pregnant women, mother's and new parents on their infant feeding journey, continue to reduce breastfeeding inequalities and improve experiences informed by evidence of what works in Scotland.

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Footnotes

1. The Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative

2. SACN report: feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years - GOV.UK

3. The 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding

4. [ARCHIVED CONTENT] About | National Performance Framework

5. Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development

6. Nurturing young children through responsive feeding

7. Unicef Conceptual Framework | Unicef

8. Nurturing young children through responsive feeding

9. Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? Rollins, Nigel C et al. The Lancet, Volume 387, Issue 10017, 491 - 504

10. Joint statement by the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, Right to Health, the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in law and in practice, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child in support of increased efforts to promote, support and protect breast-feeding | OHCHR

11. Exclusive breastfeeding for optimal growth, development and health of infants (who.int)

12. Breastfeeding: A Foundational Investment in Human Capital (worldbank.org) 2018

13. The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - Baby Friendly Initiative

14. WBTi UK Report 2016 – Breastfeeding trends (UK)

15. WBTi UK Report 2024 – Breastfeeding trends (UK)

16. Infant Feeding Statistics Scotland (publichealthscotland.scot)

17. Breastfeeding etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (legislation.gov.uk)

18. Breastfeeding and your business - mygov.scot

19. Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Theory of Change

20. Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Theory of Change

21. History of Baby Friendly in the UK - Baby Friendly Initiative

22. The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - Baby Friendly Initiative

23. Infant feeding statistics - Financial year 2023 to 2024 - Infant feeding statistics - Publications - Public Health Scotland

24. glo-media-Unicef_Early_Moments_Matter_for_Every_Child_report.pdf

25. Nurturing young children through responsive feeding

26. Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Theory of Change History of Baby Friendly in the UK - Baby Friendly Initiative

27. The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - Baby Friendly Initiative

Contact

Email: Odette.Burgess@gov.scot

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