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Table 2 Overview of participants

From: Building social capital through breastfeeding peer support: insights from an evaluation of a voluntary breastfeeding peer support service in North-West England

Type of participant

N = 87

Star buddies volunteer coordinators

6

Voluntary breastfeeding peer supporters

7

Breastfeeding women

24

Midwifery staff

14

Health visitors

11

NHS commissioner

1

Infant feeding co-ordinator/lactation consultant

3

Children’s centre staff1

21

  1. 1Children’s Centres were first developed in 1998 under the Sure Start Local Programmes agenda, and were designed to give children ‘the best possible start in life’ by improving childcare, health and family support services available. While originally only situated in high areas of deprivation, from 2002–2012, they were developed in other localities across the UK. Children’s Centres are local community centres which offer a wide range of practical, educational and emotional and health based services for families who have children under the age of five.