National Childbirth Trust
(asked on 20th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what grants for what purpose his Department is making to the National Childbirth Trust in 2016.
This question was answered on 5th September 2016
The Department awarded the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) an Innovation Excellence and Strategic Development Grant in 2015-16 under the Innovation strand.
The grant is funding a Perinatal Mental health project. The main aims of the NCT project are, to promote positive maternal mental health and support engagement with specialist services for women experiencing perinatal mental illness.