A new phone app helps parents take care of their young kids' health.

Happy Healthy Tots, available through the Right Decisions app and online, brings together a host of health and wellbeing advice to support new caregivers.

It includes information on the Health Visiting Service, feeding your child, parental health and wellbeing, your child's health and emotional wellbeing, Family Nurse Partnership and local information.

The app, by NHSGGC, is easy to handle and includes videos.

Parents, families and carers can download it for free and access it anywhere without WiFi.

Laura Gordon, health visiting team leader came up with the idea to design the application to collate all information traditionally given to parents through multiple leaflets, bringing it into one user-friendly place.

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Like the health visiting team, Happy Healthy Tots can support parents from pregnancy until their child goes to school.

The app can be changed into different languages and has partially sighted adjustments making it more user-friendly, with the ability to enlarge text.

Laura and her team in Inverclyde pursued and developed the idea for the tool with input from all six Health and Social Care Partnerships covered by the health board.

She said: "We are delighted to launch our Happy Healthy Tots app and website which has been designed with the needs of parents and families in mind.

"It brings together all the information traditionally given to families in leaflets and so much more by using videos and greater content of resources.

"We'd encourage all parents, grandparents or expectant parents to download and benefit from this helpful resource.

"The app means they will always be able to access the advice at the touch of a button, which will include local resources.

"Having this information housed within the app also means we are able to keep it fully up to date, easily accessible and user-friendly to all."