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…
New Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies: guidance for local authorities was published by the government on 4th December, confirming a further change in terminology. The guidance states that Start for Life services are to be renamed Healthy Babies services. ‘Core services’ are still parent-infant relationships, infant feeding and perinatal mental health. Speaking to the…