#EverythingAffectsHealth: How the rising cost of energy bills may worsen the nation’s health
Period of National Mourning
Budget 2021: the pledge for breastfeeding support
“Spending money in the early years generates massive cost savings for the future and nowhere is this more true than in breastfeeding support.” says Shereen...
Black Lives Matter: how the Breastfeeding Network is working to tackle racial inequality
To coincide with Black Breastfeeding Week 2021, BfN CEO Shereen Fisher gives an update on our ongoing work to tackle racial inequality. The Black Lives...
Why does academic research have an important role in protecting breastfeeding?
Anthea Tennant-Eyles, Research Lead and Breastfeeding Peer Supporter New research published here by Cardiff University and The Breastfeeding Network highlights inequity of access to breastfeeding...
Drugs in Breastmilk Information Service: Update
BfN’s plans to support Wendy Jones’s retirement came to fruition last weekend when our new team of trained volunteer pharmacists took up the baton of...
BfN Awarded Good Governance Award
It’s been an unforgettable year for the Breastfeeding Network, with record breaking numbers of mothers and parents supported on the National Breastfeeding Helpline and by...
Black Lives Matter: how the Breastfeeding Network is working to tackle racial inequality
In June 2020, against the backdrop of the worldwide protests advocating for an end to racial inequality on a mass scale, the Breastfeeding Network shared...
Joint Statement on Protecting Breastfeeding
Statement issued by: Breastfeeding Network National Childbirth Trust Association of Breastfeeding Mothers UK Association of Milk Banks Lactation Consultants of Great Britain La Leche League...
Guest Blog: Shared Parental Leave & Breastfeeding
As part of our #MakingItWork campaign, this guest blog by Dr Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi (York St John University) explores the impact that shared parental leave...
BfN Central Evaluation 2019 – Results Highlights
Nina White, BfN Programme Manager Every year, BfN release a survey to help us see what we are doing well, where we can improve and...
“Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s” – BfN’s Response
BfN sees supporting women and families with breastfeeding as an important way to tackle some of the causes of preventable ill health in England. Here...
