Together for Children

A group providing support to all young parents and helps them network and integrate into other groups in the centre. It helps them gain confidence with other people in the same position as them. They provide teenage families with education in parenting programmes as well as access to health services.

This is a service offered to all pregnant women in the Ashington area. Its concept is to bring our service to families, identify needs and tailor services accordingly. As it is delivered by a qualified midwife, women have an opportunity to express their concerns and anxieties about their pregnancy in their own environment, at a time convenient to them.

The Bosom Buddies scheme was set up in 2002 to help new breast-feeding mothers through a network of peer supporters. Now, with 60 buddies trained, levels of mothers breast-feeding within 48 hours of being discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital are at their highest since recording began.

The Cambridge Road Children’s Centre breastfeeding support project is helping to improve breastfeeding rates in a deprived ward in Southend by enabling mothers to make an informed choice on breast feeding, as well as receive practical support.

The HELPS project (Home Equipment Low Price Scheme)

Project targeted at children who had either not attended pre-school or nursery or had not attended regularly in order to give both the children and parents the skills and confidence necessary to start reception positively.

Grove House Children’s Centre. To develop children’s understanding and awareness of healthy eating using creativity as a basis of developing a fun and practical project.

A DVD guide to a healthy pregnancy and birth

The Fresh Start for Families programme is based on empowerment principles to improve home organisation, hygiene and safety.

This 'checklist' will help you to see where the dangers are for you and your children inside and outside your home.

Midwives working in these projects have the opportunity to work closely in partnership with and across other agencies in primary health care, such as community workers, interpreters, smoking cessation workers, local council workers, social services, health visitors and GPs.

They are all situated in Sure Start children's centres or Healthy living centres to provide midwifery care in non-medicalised settings where women and their families can access other services such as welfare advice, crèche facilities, internet cafes and other services.

Healthy eating services that are available in the South West Locality Children's Centres.

In September 2006, Croydon PCT employed a Children’s Centre Coordinator, to work with a wide variety of health professionals and provide a strategic link between health services and children’s

The adaptation of Canford Heath Clinic to accomodate the Children's Centre instigated partnerships with the different health staff and consultation with the local community in the provision of child and parent services.

To find ways of sharing appropriate data collected by Southampton City Primary Care Trust (SCPCT) and Southampton University Hospitals Trust (SUHT) with Sure Start children’s centres and their stakeholders in such a way that they are useful for tracking progress, stimulating debate and improving outcomes.

The aim within our centre is to support children with learning difficulties and disabilities to maximise their access to the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, and to support parents in meeting the needs of their children.

The pathway to the Empowering Parents course begins with a Pamper Day followed on by a ten week Confidence Building course and then progresses onto the Empowering Parents.

To develop a joint model of service delivery between Children’s Services and the PCT in order to provide preventive speech and language service through all 14 children’s centres in the Borough.