Professor Carol Dezateux
The largest ever UK-wide study of babies and young children, led by scientists at UCL, today received a landmark £28.5 million commitment from the Government Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). This investment adds to the £5 million previously awarded to UCL by two leading research councils, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC). This pioneering study will track the growth, development, health, wellbeing and social circumstances of over 90,000 UK babies and their families - from all walks of life - and will initially cover the period from pregnancy right through to the early years. Recruitment is due to begin in 2012. It will be the fifth such study in a series of world renowned UK studies which have followed the lives of children from birth to adult life. The first of these started in 1946 with the post war generation and the most recent with those born at the turn of the twenty first century. As is the case with these earlier studies, this new study will provide a wealth of insights into the health, development and life circumstances of this new generation of children.
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