{"id":288721,"date":"2025-11-28T23:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288721\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:21:04","slug":"new-scheme-offers-free-vitamins-for-families-in-hull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288721\/","title":{"rendered":"New scheme offers free vitamins for families in Hull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pilot, running from Fenchurch, McMillan and Marfleet Family Hubs in Hull, provides eligible families with &#8220;quick, local access to free vitamins&#8221;, the council said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added the move would build on &#8220;two years of innovative work to increase uptake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthystart.nhs.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHS Healthy Start, external<\/a> scheme&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andy McKee, early help health co-ordinator at the council, said: &#8220;We know the Healthy Start scheme is incredibly important for families in Hull, particularly in areas of high deprivation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our aim has been to take a whole-city approach, so families hear about the scheme from the people they already trust \u2013 whether that is health visitors, midwives, community workers or Family Hub staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hull City Council said it would continue monitoring the uptake of Healthy Start to &#8220;ensure families receive the support they are entitled to&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pilot, running from Fenchurch, McMillan and Marfleet Family Hubs in Hull, provides eligible families with &#8220;quick, local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-288721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}