⛄️ Day 5 ⛄️ Parent-infant relationships advent calendar 2024

The Rare Jewels report (2019) by was ground-breaking. It laid out the compelling case for parent-infant relationship services & is stuffed like a Xmas stocking with gems of useful info

parentinfantfoundation.org.uk/our-work/cam...

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@EmergingMindsAU (Australia) are a fabulous bunch, and they do lots of free online courses incl infant MH, child MH & much more. They have 5 online courses relevant to PAIRs

learning.emergingminds.com.au/pathway/infa....

🎄Day 3 🎄 of the PARENT-INFANT RELATIONSHIPS Advent Calendar 2024

I’ve done @BrazeltonUK NBO training so know how useful it is for anyone working with parents & new babies (up to 3 months).

(Some pre-requisites required: see website)

brazelton.co.uk

Watch Me Play! Watch Me Play! is a simple way for parents and caregivers to support their baby or young child. The approach can be helpful in a range of family contexts. This fantastic free resource will help…

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Watch Me Play! Is a brilliant intervention to support parent-baby relationships. The manual is free to download & you can book a 2-day training. Pre-requisites apply.

tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/our-models-o...

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Parent-Infant Relationships Advent Calendar (training, resources & reports)

Solihull Approach 2-day foundation is a great gateway training for anyone interested in supporting PARENT-INFANT RELATIONSHIPS (PAIRs).

solihullapproachparenting.com/solihull-app...

Break Down Barriers to Opportunity Giving children the best start in life.

Info on Government’s school readiness commitments is here: www.gov.uk/missions/opp...

It does mention parents, health visiting, start for life etc. so is broader than education. (Babies are there!)

But it also, at this point, mainly about the goal. The strategy/policy/spending will follow.

Work to do…

Busy day today, lots of highlights! Great to see the fab BabyZone charity in West London.

Lovely to have Christmas celebrations with patrons & advisors at the Centre for Emotional Health.

& ended on Christmas drinks at Dept for Education where SoS said early years are her “no 1 priority”!

Comfort, counsel, connection and love.

The Princess’ letter for this week’s carol concert is not specifically about early years, but this describes so much about what babies & young children need from caring adults, & what those adults need from those around them.

news.sky.com/story/kates-...

This made me remember the times in Lockdowns when our neighbours alerted the street WhatsApp groups to any big boxes they had received which could be donated to local toddlers.

Never under estimate the joy of a box!

What is a Common Elements approach? YouTube video by Play in Education, Development and Learning

Evidence based programmes are great, but they don’t always replicate or scale effectively.

Alongside programmes, we need find other flexible and creative ways to scale evidence-based practice. Common elements approaches can help with this. This is a great short explainer.

youtu.be/oMOvKuSNPk0

E-Learning Session: Including Children Aged 0-5 in Decision Making Join us for a free, interactive e-learning session via webinar focusing on the inclusion of 0-5s in decision-making processes.

@karenjbateson.bsky.social @salhogg.bsky.social @jamesedpsych.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/e-learning...

Interesting to read this report from @timewise.bsky.social about flexibility in the early education and childcare workforce & its role in helping recruitment & retention. Good to see that children and parents’ needs for continuity & relationships are woven through it.
timewise.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Mobilise - PEDAL The Mobilise programme was a groundbreaking new approach to support UK policymakers to learn about early childhood, and to use that knowledge to achieve impactful, evidence-based change in their work.

You might be interested in the Mobilise programme that we ran at Cambridge - working with policy makers over a prolonged period in a relationships-based way to help them use academic evidence in their work. www.pedalhub.net/projects/ite...

The next 1000 days: building on early investments for the health and development of young children Following the first 1000 days of life that span from conception to two years of age, the next 1000 days of a child's life from 2–5 years of age offer a window of opportunity to promote nurturing and c...

“Following the first 1000 days… the next 1000 days of a child's life from 2–5… offer a window of opportunity to promote nurturing & caring environments, establish healthy behaviours, & build on early gains to sustain or improve trajectories of healthy development”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thanks both!

Yes please! 🙋‍♀️

Please do share all lessons on this and anything else about how to use BlueSky well.

Well done Karen, I was just thinking this was something that needed to be done and you did it!

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Hello. Someone told me this was the place to be, so I’m giving it a try!

Keen to connect & reconnnect with friends from the worlds of early childhood, infant mental health, dev psych, perinatal, family support, child poverty etc.

Please do connect & let me know who I should be looking out for.