A project aimed at helping parents in Dublin with regular visits, help and advice, has led to children having better health and education and is set to be extended to other parts of the country.
Preparing for Life (PFL) has been working with parents in Darndale in the north east of the city for almost 20 years and its one of the largest studies of its kind in Europe
The programme recruited pregnant women and split them into two groups – high treatment and low treatment.
The high treatment group received a visitor to the family home once every two weeks, lasting from pregnancy until the child entered junior infants and was one of the longest-running…