Henry Program

How HENRY supports a healthy start in life

HENRY is the UK’s leading healthy start provider. We offer family support which covers all aspects of child development. This holistic approach and our commitment to quality has led to commissions from more than 70 local authorities and the strongest evidence base for any UK early years healthy start programme.

The HENRY approach

HENRY adopts a unique and holistic approach to working with families underpinned by the evidence on risk and protective factors for early nutrition, child obesity and child development.
We integrate proven behaviour change models into a supportive and effective approach that increases parental confidence and their ability to provide a healthy start for their child. This ‘HENRY approach’ brings together support for parenting efficacy, family emotional wellbeing and behaviour change with information about nutrition, physical activity, oral health and more. Parents supported by HENRY make statistically significant lifestyle changes and independent clinical trials show these changes are sustained at follow-up.

Support for all aspects of child development

The breadth and holistic nature of the HENRY approach supports not only improved nutrition and healthy weight, but all aspects of wider early child development including social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive – therefore contributing to school readiness. This is why many commissioners use HENRY as a key parenting pathway.
HENRY can be offered to our families through our local Children's Centres. If you feel that this would be of benefit to your family or would like more information or to be put forwad for it then please speak to Amanda.