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Healthy Start helps families to buy healthy food and milk from pregnancy until the child’s 4th birthday.
Healthy Start helps families claiming certain benefits to buy healthy food and milk from the 10th week of pregnancy until the child’s 4th birthday. If you are under 18 and pregnant, you are automatically eligible, regardless of your benefit status.
You are sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in supermarkets and other grocery stores to buy healthy food, milk or first infant formula. The card is topped up every 4 weeks.
In Tower Hamlets, all children under the age of 4 and all pregnant and breastfeeding women and up to 1 year post-natal are eligible for free Healthy Start vitamins.
Find out more on the Tower Hamlets Council Website or speak to your local Children’s Family Centre, Health Visitor or Midwife.
A video which features Tower Hamlets residents has been created by the council, please watch and share with friends and family:
