Lisa Storey, Child Development Interventions Coordinator from the Western Health and Social Care Trust, outlines the focus for this year's Infant Mental Health Awareness Week (8-14 June).
Read the second of four new Insight Reports on early years and supporting better outcomes for young children, from across the five A Better Start partnerships.
Mary Magee, from the Perinatal & Infant Mental Health team in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, reflects on her work and how Parent Programmes can help support parental mental health.
A partnership between NCB, Gwent Wildlife Trust and Wilder Connections is co-designing a training programme for early years practitioners and playgroup leaders.
A project to develop and evaluate the delivery of the Your Baby and You (YBY) programme, with the aim of improving parents of 0–1-year-olds knowledge, skills, resources, and confidence in supporting their children’s early development.
We broadly welcome the measures announced today by the Department for Education in support of its aim to increase school readiness, but the starting gun for a child's development should be at birth, not Offer Day.
Martina McCooey, Child Development Intervention Coordinator (CDIC) for the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, outlines her work supporting the Parent Programme.