New FREE resources on health for parents
The Institute of Health Visiting, which Hertfordshire University colleagues have been involved in founding, has launched a new series of free fact sheets for parents with Children under 5 years of age. These can be accessed here and have been developed and tested with parents.
For parents
http://www.ihv.org.uk/for_families/factsheet_for_parents
The new resources cover key priority health themes for parents and professionals, with series of fact sheets available for each of these themes.
- Nutrition
- Breastfeeding
- Bonding and behaviour
- Child safety
- Common illnesses and conditions e.g. colic & crying, eczema, scarlet fever
- Immunisations
- Sleep and safer sleep
- Fathers
- Childhood conditions that need specialist support e.g. deafness and hearing difficulties, nystagmus
Fact sheets for Professionals
http://www.ihv.org.uk/policy_professional/ihv_good_practice_points_for_health_visitors
A series of specialist fact sheets for professionals is also available for each of these themes:
- Homeless families
- Prisoners’ families
- Gypsy and traveller families
- Sikh families
- Chinese families
- Bereaved families
- Families living with a child with special needs
- Families living with a child with autism
- Working with domestic violence
A resource on working with minority groups is also available
http://www.ihv.org.uk/policy_professional/good_practice_points_for_working_with_minority_gro
Health visitors are an important public health service. They focus on prevention and on giving children and families vital help and support in the early years of a child’s life. Every family with a child under five has a named health visitor, who works to promote the health of the whole family including advising on all aspects of children’s growth and development; sleep, healthy eating, immunisation, parental wellbeing and adjusting to becoming parents.