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Chapter 6

6 Operational Delivery: Moving from Set-Up to Sustainability Chapter contents Finding families to work with Start by screening for suitability Managing a waiting list Typical referral management process Allocation within the team Trauma Informed Approaches Making first contact The first appointment Agreeing further work Letters Interventions Managing endings Follow up Sharing information with others Recording…

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Parent-Infant Foundation awarded National Lottery funding to support families across Wales 

The Parent-Infant Foundation is delighted to announce it has been awarded National Lottery Funding to help develop more specialised parent-infant teams across Wales.  The Foundation has successfully applied for just over £400,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund. The funding will support a three-year project aimed at further developing parent-infant relationship teams across all areas…

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Working for Babies

1001 Days Manifesto Updates APPG Activities Resources Evidence Briefs Infographics Working for Babies Members Working for Babies: Listening to local voices for a better recovery In early 2021 our Working for Babies report – Lockdown Lessons from Local Systems, shone a light on how many local leaders and professionals took extraordinary steps to adapt, innovate…

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Chief Executives call on the Prime Minister to act now to improve babies’ wellbeing.

On the eve of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, the leaders of nearly 80 organisations have signed this letter to the Prime Minister calling on him to make the youngest children a national priority in order to mitigate the secondary and potentially long-term impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The letter argues that, as politicians decide…

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Parent-Infant Foundation welcomes ‘Impact of COVID-19 on new parents: one year on’ report

The Parent-Infant Foundation welcomes the House of Commons Petitions Committee’s report on the continuing challenges faced by new and expectant parents in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their report, ‘Impact of COVID-19 on new parents: one year on’ provides a clear analysis of the difficulties the pandemic has posed for some babies and their families.…

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The first 1001 Days

1001 Days Updates Past Activities APPG Activities Resources Evidence Briefs Infographics Working for Babies Members The first 1001 days Text to go here. You can view the PDF below, or download the PDF by clicking here.

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Why Relationships Matter

Early relationships shape babies’ social and emotional development and influence many key outcomes The positive influences of healthy relationships Early relationships influence a baby’s brain, and in particular their social and emotional development. This early development plays an important role in how well a child will go on to achieve many of the key outcomes…

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1 Introduction and Key Concepts Chapter contents What is this toolkit and who is it for? Navigating the Toolkit What are specialised parent-infant relationship teams? Characteristics of specialised parent-infant relationship teams Specialised teams are part of the parent-infant relationships ecosystem Why do we need specialised parent-infant relationship teams? The importance of a shared language from…

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Annual report reveals the Parent-Infant Foundation is supporting more babies through specialised parent-infant teams than ever before.

The Foundations’ work is driven by our mission to support the growth and quality of specialised parent-infant relationship teams across the UK to give babies the best possible start to life.   We are pleased to share our annual report, which describes what the Foundation team achieved, with our partners, in 2020-21, including key statistics…

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Chapter 1

1 Introduction and Key Concepts Chapter contents What is this toolkit and who is it for? Navigating the Toolkit What are specialised parent-infant relationship teams? Characteristics of specialised parent-infant relationship teams Specialised teams are part of the parent-infant relationships ecosystem Why do we need specialised parent-infant relationship teams? The importance of a shared language from…

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