... Children's National Service Framework (NSF) (1998) was initially a ten-year programme set up by the government to improve the health and well being of children from birth to nineteen years. The UK Child Health Surveillance programme has now been replaced with the Child Health Promotion Programme which was launched by the Children's NSF (2002), this now looks at a holistic and systematic process to assess the individual child and family's needs, which includes childhood screening. Child Health Surveillance is defined as a programme of screening tests and development checks; it is about supporting families to bring up their children to be healthy through support and education of appropriate advice given through health promotion (Hall 2003). Health promotion is about what we can do to combat ill health, as it is generally accepted by medical professionals that prevention is better than cure. There are many different definitions defining Health Promotion, and the World Health ...

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