Best Beginnings is influential in policy across a range of Boards, including:

• National Maternity Review, now on Maternity Transformation Stakeholder Group

• Smoking In Pregnancy Challenge Group

• The National Teenage Pregnancy Midwifery Network

• Pregnancy and Baby Charities Network

• Maternal Mental Health Alliance

• Heads Together

• 1001 Critical Days Initiative

• Maternity Transformation Programme Stakeholder Council

• Children’s Oral Health Improvement Programme

• Early Years Stakeholder Group, convened by the Department of Education

• The Scottish Maternity Review

• Obesity Health Alliance 

• Baby Feeding Law Group

• Early Childhood Development task force