Policy Overview

United Future believes that all children deserve the best start in life. Unfortunately many children are not accorded this right. We will work to ensure that all children have access to the health professionals and services they need. Investing resources in these early years will result in far less costs to our society in later years.

United Future Will:

• Fund Plunket to ensure all children receive the recommended eight well child health checks in the first five years.

• Establish new health clinics within family service centres, to provide comprehensive health screening programmes.

• Promote immunisation through home-visits, community welfare organisations and school-based programmes.

• Expand the current vision and hearing tests in schools to include years 1, 3, 5 and 7.

• Increase funding for early identification of children with special needs and disabilities with targeted systematic, intensive and high quality interventions.

• Promote greater preventative and basic restorative dental care in the young and at-risk groups.

• Promote a strong anti-drugs education programme in our schools as well as a greater understanding of a healthy lifestyle including eating and exercise.

United Future Parliamentary Office: Bowen House, Lambton Quay, Wellington
Email: Phone: (04) 471 9410