This year to mark Infant Mental Health Awareness Week (8th – 14th June), the Parent-Infant Foundation is calling on professionals and practitioners to focus on ‘Attunement’. Attunement is the ability to tune in and connect with others on an emotional level. It is important for everyone, but particularly for babies and their parents (or carers).…
On 7th May, Scotland elects a new government. Ahead of the election, the Parent-Infant Foundation convened a coalition of children’s and mental health charities (Save the Children, NSPCC, Home-Start UK, Mental Health Foundation, Parenting Across Scotland and Starcatchers) to call on all political parties to ‘Speak up for babies in Scotland’ With just over a week until the elections, we are keen to see how each of the main parties…
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,…