The Parent-Infant Foundation

📢 Calling all public affairs and policy leads! We're hiring! 📢 Could you be our new Public Affairs & Policy Manager in Scotland? We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting babies’ emotional wellbeing & healthy development to lead our relationship with the Scottish Government and Parliament, helping ensure the voices of vulnerable babies and their families are heard. As this is a new post, the right candidate will have an exciting opportunity to develop our first dedicated influencing strategy for Scotland. See all the details here 👉 bit.ly/3WoFxbP Please share! #publicaffairsjobs #Scotland #infantmentalhealth #policyjobs #hiring

With only days until the election, Tamora Langley - our Head of Policy and Communications here at The Parent-Infant Foundation - has had a look over the party manifestos and what they are or aren't mentioning when it comes to the youngest members of society, and the asks included in the @First1001Days Movement #Manifestoforbabies. Have a read here 👇

Thanks to everyone who helped us #SpeakUpForBabies as part of #IMHAW2024 last week. Although the week has now drawn to a close, our campaign has not! There is still time before the #generalelection to ask your local candidates to #SpeakUpForBabies! Please help us give babies a voice by using these last two weeks pre-election to ask your candidates to join the campaign using our 'how to' guide👉bit.ly/3VeVMGt #IMHAW2024 If you are a parliamentary candidate and would like to show support for your youngest constituents, we'd love to hear from you 👉 bit.ly/4aYWdug

It's Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, and we are all go with our #SpeakUpForBabies campaign. Start for Life guidance estimates that at least 1 in 10 babies in the UK is living in fear and distress (at risk of disorganised attachment). An increasing number of toddlers are missing key developmental targets, and mental health conditions in children are on the rise. Babies don’t vote of course, so too often they are overlooked during elections. The Parent-Infant Foundation is asking candidates of all parties to #SpeakUpForBabies. More than a dozen candidates from different political parties are already supporting the campaign. Find out if your local politician has joined our campaign here 👉 bit.ly/4bljZBU   If they haven’t pledged support then please email them using our guide 👉 bit.ly/3VeVMGt The Parent-Infant Foundation has also created a film aimed at politicians, featuring a Baby Prime Minister. To give context we have placed this with an editorial on the LabourList website here 👉 bit.ly/3XbBmkh and the ConHome website here 👉 bit.ly/3RjrzEW. The film is designed to cut-through in this busy election period and ‘give babies a voice’. You can view it on YouTube here 👉 youtu.be/lzeT9eGPdso   #IMHAW2024

It's Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, and we are all go with our #SpeakUpForBabies campaign. Start for Life guidance estimates that at least 1 in 10 babies in the UK is living in fear and distress (at risk of disorganised attachment). An increasing number of toddlers are missing key developmental targets, and mental health conditions in children are on the rise. Babies don’t vote of course, so too often they are overlooked during elections. The Parent-Infant Foundation is asking candidates of all parties to #SpeakUpForBabies. More than a dozen candidates from different political parties are already supporting the campaign. Find out if your local politician has joined our campaign here 👉 bit.ly/4bljZBU   If they haven’t pledged support then please email them using our guide 👉 bit.ly/3VeVMGt The Parent-Infant Foundation has also created a film aimed at politicians, featuring a Baby Prime Minister. To give context we have placed this with an editorial on the LabourList website here 👉 bit.ly/3XbBmkh and the ConHome website here 👉 bit.ly/3RjrzEW. The film is designed to cut-through in this busy election period and ‘give babies a voice’. You can view it on YouTube here 👉 youtu.be/lzeT9eGPdso   #IMHAW2024

Next week is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week and we are calling on politicians and candidates from all parties to #Speakupforbabies. Too often babies are forgotten about during elections. We want babies’ voices to be heard! Are the candidates standing for election in your area on the list yet? If not maybe you can help us reach out to them and ask them to #Speakupforbabies! Take a look at who has already joined our campaign and how you can help us make sure babies voices are heard! 👉 bit.ly/speakupforbabies #IMHAW2024

Great to see this important new report from The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood highlighting why investment in early years makes sense for babies and families, but also for the wider economy. As secretariat for the First 1001 Days Movement we have called for the next Government to invest more in prevention as part of our 'Manifesto for Babies'. Read more about the manifesto here 👉 bit.ly/3VpZKOk

On World Maternal Mental Health Day, The Parent-Infant Foundation is pleased to support Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA)'s #MMHAdvocacyDay. A mother's mental health can play such an important part in building the foundations for a strong and positive parent-infant relationship. If a mother or main carer is struggling with their mental health it can impact how well they are able to bond with their baby, so it is crucial the right support is available from the very start. We support the call from MMHA for MPs to value new and expectant mothers' mental health as much as their physical health, and the ask that mental health is discussed at every contact with a healthcare professional. Find out more and get involved 👇 https://lnkd.in/e_Yh9nkT #StrongerTogether #WMMHD24

On World Maternal Mental Health Day, The Parent-Infant Foundation is pleased to support Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA)'s #MMHAdvocacyDay. A mother's mental health can play such an important part in building the foundations for a strong and positive parent-infant relationship. If a mother or main carer is struggling with their mental health it can impact how well they are able to bond with their baby, so it is crucial the right support is available from the very start. We support the call from MMHA for MPs to value new and expectant mothers' mental health as much as their physical health, and the ask that mental health is discussed at every contact with a healthcare professional. Find out more and get involved 👇 https://lnkd.in/e_Yh9nkT #StrongerTogether #WMMHD24

📢 New Trustees needed! 📢 One of our longest-serving trustees is standing down and we are now recruiting new trustees to join the board.  In this voluntary position, trustees play a unique role in driving us towards our vision of a UK in which all parents & carers are supported to create sensitive, nurturing relationships with their babies. Could this be you or someone you know? Please look over the details and share! Deadline for initial applications is Monday 13th May. Full details 👉bit.ly/3xS0kut