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Ben Curran

@bencurran.bsky.social
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Campaigner & Communicator. Runner & Nature lover. Campaign Manager @ Parent-Infant Foundation / Organiser @ First 1001 Days Movement Sheffielder Above all, proud father & husband

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First 1001 Days Movement @first1001days.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The video from our latest lunchtime webinar is now online. It looked at the recommendations made in the Manifesto for Babies and the progress being made against them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y60eXFC2pUk
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First 1001 Days Movement @first1001days.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Join us for our next lunchtime webinar looking back at our Manifesto for Babies in light of policy developments. 🎤 Hosted by Ben Curran with Tamora Langley, Matthew Hann, Emma Gardner & Eunice Lumsden 🗓️ 1PM on Weds 23 July 👉 Register www.tickettailor.com/events/first1001daysmovement/1786331
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Ben Curran @bencurran.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It was a real pleasure to work on this amendment and to have drafted the briefing that Baroness Glenys Thornton thanked the Parent-Infant Foundation for. I was pleased with Minister Jacqui Smith's response and am looking forward to the best start in life strategy being published later this year.
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First 1001 Days Movement @first1001days.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We have made a submission to the Government's spending review calling for investment in: 1⃣ Start for Life 2⃣ Breastfeeding 3⃣ Tackling child poverty 4⃣ Health Visitors 5⃣ Paternity Leave Read more 👇 parentinfantfoundation.org.uk/8898-2/
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First 1001 Days Movement – Spending Review Submission 2025 - Parent-Infant Foundation
The First 1001 Days Movement has recently submitted its submission to the Government’s 2025 spending review.  The submission focuses on how the Government can meet its ambition to give children the be...
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Ben Curran @bencurran.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sharon Hodgson MP really understands this work. It was great to be able to showcase Little Minds in Mind as an excellent example of parent-infant relationship support and to talk through our ambitions for the Start for Life programme.
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Parent-Infant Foundation @parentinfantfdn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
@pippaheylings.bsky.social asked whether Start for Life services could be extended to every area of England, including to her South Cambridgeshire constituency. The government confirmed that it holds the ambition to ensure that start for life services reach every child.
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Ben Curran @bencurran.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The #APPGonBabies has been launched. We have the amazing @mayaellismp.bsky.social as Chair and a great officer team with @elsieblundellmp.bsky.social, Patrick Spencer and @freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social I look forward to continuing to work with them & providing their secretariat support.
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Ben Curran @bencurran.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The latest edition of the First 1001 Days newsletter is out now. You can read it for free here: mailchi.mp/e00cc8e60aa2... This edition includes: - an update on our Start for Life campaign - What Keir Starmer's 'Plan for Change' means for babies - APPG on Babies (Pregnancy to Age 2)
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