Thriving Babies Confident Parents Programme

Introduction

The Thriving Babies Confident Parents Project is about promoting the health, wellbeing and safety of children through working differently with their parents during pregnancy to improving outcomes so babies can thrive by having safe, stable, permanent homes, remaining with their families and communities.

Thriving Babies Confident Parents is for families of babies identified at higher risk of becoming looked after. The Project applies the principles of trauma informed and culturally appreciative practice to promote, safety, trust, empowerment, choice and collaboration in our work with families.

With a ‘think family’ focus, services and interventions are coordinated to address parental challenges and capacity for change. The Project brings together multi-agency partners to collaborate proactively with parents building on existing strengths, protective and resilience factors to help address the adversities and vulnerabilities within family networks. Our practitioners aim to collaborate with the parents and the whole family to provide the best opportunities for young babies to grow up in the care of their family network.

Who is part of the Thriving Babies Team?

The Thriving Babies Confident Parents Core Team is composed of statutory and voluntary sector partners:

• Big Life Group
• Adult Social Care 
• Early Years’ Service
• Manchester’s Early Help Service 
• Midwifery Health Visiting
• Children’s and Parents Service (CAPS) 
• Home Start
• Barnados Big Manchester
• Manchester Children’s Services

Which families do we work with?

The project collaborates with prospective parents of babies

• Parents during pregnancy and early parenthood facing complex vulnerabilities
• Previously had children removed through legal care proceedings who are currently involved with children’ services.
• Social care experienced parents

 Where vulnerability factors include:

• Parents who have experienced significant adversity and trauma
• Domestic Abuse
• Substance Misuse
• Mental Health
• Learning Disability/Difficulty

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