Princess Kate spent the morning at a women's prison in Cheshire to visit its Mother and Baby Unit, which helps prisoners with babies up to 18 months old

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 develop strong and healthy relationships between mothers and babies "even in the most challenging of environments".

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.