Lancashire Healthy Young People & Families Service provides Health Visiting and School Nursing Services across the county

On behalf of Lancashire County Council and the NHS, Lancashire Healthy Young People & Families Service (provided by HCRG Care Group) provide a range of child and family services throughout Lancashire that are free at the point of delivery.

We provide Health Visiting services, health advice (from antenatal through to the first 5 years of your child’s life) and School Nursing Services for 5 to 19-year-olds (to age 25 for SEND).

This includes advising on healthy growth and care, breastfeeding, providing help with common health problems and working with other professionals to support young families and carers.

See ‘Our Services’ or ‘Support & Information’ tabs above, for more detail on specific services.

Quick links:

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Anya. The 24/7 pregnancy, parenting and baby feeding support app is offering a FREE 5 month trial to Lancashire residents. Download the app today. 

Did you know Anya is now available in other languages? Arabic, Urdu, Bengali and more in the works!  See here for more information

NEW Termly Newsletters available for all Childcare providers and Early Years Settings

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For information on feeding your baby/infant when they have Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) resulting in Bronchiolitis click here.

Child Health Clinics – face-to-face clinics for parents and carers by appointment or drop-in

Access our virtual and BBB groups and classes both live and recorded

Young people can access support from our Chat Health service

NCT offer an infant feeding peer support service across Lancashire – please see poster for more information here