The Parent-Infant Foundation is delighted to welcome a new research report – ‘Why babies’ first relationships matter’ – from Centre for Mental Health. The new economic analysis finds that expanding the services of parent-infant teams could save billions of pounds across health, social care, and education systems in the UK. As the authors point out,…
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…