Welcome to the Somerset Pre-Birth and Early Years Resources, these have been produced collaboratively with practitioners from across the Partnership to help you to work with parents in the pre-birth period through to the early years.
These resources have been put together to help you to work with parents in the pre-birth to early years period. They are not intended as a resource to forward on with an expectation that families will complete them independently, they are intended to be collaborative. Whilst they will undoubtedly help and inform assessments, the primary goal of these resources is to help parents to understand how to care for their baby/child and to develop their parenting skills so that they are able to keep them safe.
Whichever professional role you have with families in the pre-birth or early years period, these resources will help you to support parents and prevent them from having to keep repeating their information. They are intended to enable all professionals to have a shared understanding of the strengths parents have, as well as the areas they are struggling with and may need additional support. This work can be part of and compliment other plans for the family.