The Julie Crawford Award

The Julie Crawford Award for Breastfeeding Support is an award given by the Baby Feeding Law Group to Health Visitors and Health Visitor Teams who have made a significant contribution to the protection of breastfeeding and who facilitate universal access to support that is free from commercial influence.

 

The Award was set up in memory of Julie Crawford, a health visitor and a former Director of Baby Milk Action who died from a rare disease, at the age of 42 in November 2001. Julie cared passionately about breastfeeding and was never frightened to stand up and fight for the rights of mothers to independent and sensitive care. She was especially concerned about the extent of industry funding of education for health professionals and was also keen to push for legal action in defence of mother’s rights to breastfeed.

 

• 2003: Gill Rapley 
• 2004: Deanna Vearncombe
• 2005: Sharon Breward
• 2006: Annette Ogilvie-Forbes
• 2009: Alison Spiro.
• 2010: Six health visitor representatives on the Infant Feeding Information Team of Blackpool and North Lancashire (IFIT):
  
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  • Julie Carter-Lindsay,
  • Jo Dobson,
  • Sue Anslow,
  • Nicky Harrison,
  • Sam Whittle, and
  • Kathleen Freear.