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Hosted by Wook Hamilton (Head of Development at the Parent Infant Foundation) & Paula Magee (Clinical Lead, Haringey PIPS team) This workshop was aimed at anyone who is developing parent-infant services within a Family Hub context. Family hubs are a fantastic opportunity to make specialist parent-infant services accessible to families. However, we know from our…
Read More1 March 2024 RE. The future of Start for Life and services that support babies Dear Chancellor, Ahead of next week’s Budget, we urge you to provide certainty over the future of the government’s Start for Life programme. We sincerely hope that funding for the programme will not end in a year’s time, as currently…
Read MoreOver 200 charities publish a ‘Manifesto for babies’ today, to address a five-year decline in toddler development. One in five two-year olds in England are now below expected levels of development. Charities warn failure to act now will create ‘a ticking time bomb’ that hits when children start school. Ahead of what is set to…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Start for Life Review is a welcome government commitment to improve health and wellbeing in the First 1001 Days, from pregnancy to age two. It provides a solid evaluation of the services, workforce and leadership needed to improve outcomes during these formative years. As the document itself recognises, “The words on the page will not change what happens”, it…
Read More1001 Days Updates Past Activities APPG Activities Resources Infographics Working for Babies Members #WhatAboutUs 600,000 babies born in lockdown are overlooked. In the year since we first locked down, over 600,000 babies living in England have been born and have lived their whole lives in lockdown. Many young families are missing out on vital early…
Read MoreWe invite every team around the UK to join the Parent-Infant Network and to take up our offers of support. The Parent-Infant Network is for all specialised parent-infant relationship teams around the UK or anyone working to set up a team. The Parent-Infant Teams Network brings together established and emerging specialised parent-infant relationship teams around…
Read MoreToday, on World Mental Health Day, the Parent-Infant Foundation is bringing the mental health of babies to the conversation. Since the day was first created in 1992, amazing progress has been made to improve understanding of mental health and mental illness. Much still remains to be done, not least in recognising the mental health needs…
Read MoreThe Parent-Infant Foundation today launches a comprehensive toolkit to support local areas wanting to set up or further develop a specialised parent-infant relationship team. We have brought together practice experts, team managers, researchers, academics, commissioners and programme developers to share their learnings and create a web-based toolkit so that new teams can be set up…
Read MoreAcknowledgements and disclaimers Toolkit contents Chapter 1: Introduction and Key Concepts Chapter 2: The Case for Change Chapter 3: Funding and Commissioning a Specialised Parent-Infant Relationship Team Chapter 4: Clinical Interventions and Evidence-Informed Practice Chapter 5: Setting up a Specialised Parent-Infant Relationship Team and Preparing for Operational Delivery Chapter 6: From Set-up to Sustainability Chapter…
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