Baby boxes to be sent to new mothers in Scotland from this week

Cardboard boxes include fitted mattress and bedding to turn them into temporary cribs as part of safe sleeping scheme

All new mothers in Scotland are being offered free baby boxes including clothes, thermometers and books in an effort to improve their children’s life chances.

The boxes, worth about £160 each including distribution costs, are being made available for all babies due from Tuesday, to about 58,000 mothers a year in a voluntary opt-in scheme. The initiative mirrors a programme running in Finland since the 1930s.

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