The Princess of Wales stressed the importance of mothers wellbeing as she met inmates at a mother and baby unit in Cheshire. Kate visited the unit, which is one of three in the North of England providing inmates with support from trained staff and early years practitioners in a separate living area.

The Princess of Wales has visited a women's prison in Cheshire where she talked to inmates in a mother-and-baby unit. On a visit to HMP Styal, in Wilmslow, Catherine was shown a project designed to forge strong and healthy relationships between mothers and babies "even in the most challenging of environments".

Mums who gave birth in a prison that has been dubbed ‘hell on earth’ have told the Princess of Wales childcare is better there than it is on the outside. Kate visited HMP Styal, a women’s prison in Cheshire,

Kate hears praise for prison nursery from former inmates - The Princess of Wales has made the promotion of the early years development of children one of the key elements of her public work.