How to commission for the best start in life

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31 March 2014

A guide to implementing best preventive and integrative practice in children’s health and wellbeing from conception to age 2. Best practice commissioning is explained as ‘co-mission-ing’ because, at its heart, this is the mission, or common purpose, to unite all those seeking to protect, prevent and potentiate in the area of early years’ development.

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