The Holyrood baby needs a focus on prevention of adverse childhood experiences [HolyRood.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/27/164:00 AM

Imagine if in Scotland we could reduce our inequalities in health and wellbeing, what would that Scotland look like?

It would be a country where fewer people smoked, fewer people used heroin, there would be less binge drinking, less violence and there would be fewer people in our prisons. All good.

This also means that there would be less demand on public services, and the Christie Commission report in 2011 spoke of the need for public service organisations to prioritise preventative measures to reduce demand and lessen inequalities, so that's good too.

[For more of this story, written by John Carnochan, go to https://www.holyrood.com/artic...hildhood-experiences]

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