Princess Kate beamed as she arrived at a mother and baby unit in her latest outing today. The Princess of Wales visited a Mother and Baby Unit at HMP Styal prison to highlight the vital importance of mother-child relationships,

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 continued her gradual return to public duties by visting HMP Styal in Cheshire - one of the largest women's prisons in the UK

When Kate chatted with staff from the mother and baby unit, she asked about its effects on reoffending, suggesting it was ‘massive’, and was told normal reoffending rates for women were around 70% but this reduced to just 12% with those receiving parental support.