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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2025
It is for local health bodies to plan and provide services that best meet the needs of their resident populations, including those that live in rural communities, consistent with clinical best practice, national policies and frameworks.
The model, which is set out in the 2017 report “The Best Start”, follows clinical evidence that providing specialist care in units that care for higher numbers of very pre-term babies gives the best survival chances and clinical outcomes.
According to the Scottish Government's Policy Note these regulations make changes to the Best Start Foods Regulations, Best Start Grant Regulations and Scottish Child Payment Regulations that set out the rules and eligibility criteria for Best Start Foods, Best Start Grant and Scottish Child Payment.
Early Years Assistance, Consultation on the Best Start Grant Regulations. Retrieved from <a href="https://consult.gov.scot/social-security/best-start-grant/" target="_blank">https://consult.gov.scot/social-security/best-start-grant/</a> [accessed 27 March 2018]