The Parent-Infant Foundation and a coalition of six other charities working to support the rights and wellbeing of babies, have today launched a ‘Manifesto for babies in Scotland’, with policy recommendations for the next Scottish government. Convened and led by the Parent-Infant Foundation, the manifesto has been created in partnership with Save the Children Scotland,…
We are grateful to the parliamentarians on the influential Health and Social Care Select Committee who have called on Government to support the expansion of Family Hubs with “sustained and ringfenced funding”. As the Committee say, “Previous research on the benefits of the Sure Start Programme clearly set out the long-term benefits and financial returns of such an investment and would directly…
The Parent-Infant Foundation’s pilot awareness raising training project, ‘BEAR – Building Early Attuned Relationships’, based in Wales, has come to an end, with some brilliant results and positive feedback. The aim of the National Lottery supported ‘BEAR’ project is to increase knowledge across professional and community domains about the importance of the first 1000 days (known…